Issues with jekyll rights on apple M1

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Dear all,

I am trying to run jekyll on my macbook air M1. I’ve been following this guide:

It seems to work and when I run ruby -v it shows I am using ruby version 3.1.2. Installing jekyll and bundler also works fine. However when I try to run certain jekyll commands it seems to run into some issues. For example when doing jekyll new my-awesome-website it complains about rights for creating a folder:

/Users/user/.rubies/ruby-3.1.2/lib/ruby/3.1.0/fileutils.rb:243:in `mkdir’: Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /Users/svillerius/Projects/my-awesome-site (Errno::EACCES)

When I try to run the same command elevated it tells me it cannot find the gem. I assume because it then uses the default ruby environment macOs ships with:

/Users/user/.rubies/ruby-3.1.2/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems.rb:265:in `find_spec_for_exe’: can’t find gem jekyll (>= 0.a) with executable jekyll (Gem::GemNotFoundException)

Not sure where to go from here. How do I give jekyll the rights to do what it needs to do but prevent it from using the default ruby installation?

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I’ve sort of solved it by running “chown user Projects” for the whole projects folder and user. It feels dirty though. However it is my personal laptop and I will only be using one user so I guess it’s fine in this case.

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If it helps any, I created a video that works successfully on Apple Silicon:

Install Jekyll on Apple Silicon (Jamstack)

However, I’m now a convert and used Docker, so here’s how I do it on my Mac:
Develop Jekyll websites in a container (including GitHub Pages)

Hope you find these useful!