# Jekyll build -- cannot find \_layout, \_include, \_sass dir for minima theme **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [December 31, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-cannot-find-layout-include-sass-dir-for-minima-theme/1314 "2017-12-31T22:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![quantumlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/59ef9b/32.png) [@quantumlight](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/quantumlight)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-cannot-find-layout-include-sass-dir-for-minima-theme/1314/1 "2017-12-31T22:25:31Z")
I am using Mac 10.11.6 El Capitan. I successfully installed jekyll and used homebrew to install Ruby 2.4.1 to /usr/local/bin. And when I run ruby in terminal, it is the new \>2.0.0 ruby I’ve installed. I have GEM\_PATH set to "/Users/peter.chen/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1:/Users/peter.chen/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1@global ". But when I do “jekyll new [PATH]”, the \_layout, \_include \_sass folder are not created but the config file has the theme minima. But when I do Jekyll build I get the following errors which result in an index.html that is empty: ``` Build Warning: Layout 'post' requested in personal/_posts/2017-12-31-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown does not exist. Build Warning: Layout 'default' requested in personal/404.html does not exist. Build Warning: Layout 'page' requested in personal/about.md does not exist. Build Warning: Layout 'home' requested in personal/index.md does not exist. ``` It seems that jekyll isn’t able to see that I am using the minima theme and then go find it in " /Users/peter.chen/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/minima-2.1.1" ---
**Author:** ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-cannot-find-layout-include-sass-dir-for-minima-theme/1314/2 "2017-12-31T22:31:25Z")
the theme is hidden, so not seeing it in the folder is normal. How are you running jekyll? just jekyll serve/build or are you using bundler? I think you need to use `bundle exec jekyll serve` and that will install the minima theme gem for you. I don’t use bundler so not sure I have it correct - but I would guess that is your problem, the minima theme gem is missing. ---
**Author:** ![quantumlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/59ef9b/32.png) [@quantumlight](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/quantumlight)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-cannot-find-layout-include-sass-dir-for-minima-theme/1314/3 "2017-12-31T22:37:26Z")
I see, you are right, I was following this tutorial, it made it sound jekyll new creates a folder for all your stuff and you run jekyll outside of that. It works now that I run inside the folder jekyll generated.