# Jekyll new Failing on Mac

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-new-failing-on-mac/405>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [April 6, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-new-failing-on-mac/405 "2017-04-06T23:47:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![duckontheweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@duckontheweb](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/duckontheweb)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-new-failing-on-mac/405/1 "2017-04-06T23:47:11Z")

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Hi All:

I’m having trouble running the basic Quick Start instructions. I install `bundler` and `jekyll` and try to run `jekyll new my-blog`, but it gives and error. Here is the full output:

```bash
$ gem install jekyll bundler
Successfully installed jekyll-3.4.3
Parsing documentation for jekyll-3.4.3
Done installing documentation for jekyll after 1 seconds
Successfully installed bundler-1.14.6
Parsing documentation for bundler-1.14.6
Done installing documentation for bundler after 4 seconds
2 gems installed
$ jekyll new my-blog
Dependency Error: Yikes! It looks like you don't have bundler or one of its dependencies installed. In order to use Jekyll as currently configured, you'll need to install this gem. The full error message from Ruby is: 'cannot load such file -- bundler' If you run into trouble, you can find helpful resources at https://jekyllrb.com/help/! 
jekyll 3.4.3 | Error: bundler
Jonathans-MacBook-Pro:test-blog jduckwor$ 

```

Here is my Ruby version, managed via rbenv:

```bash
$ ruby --version
ruby 2.2.2p95 (2015-04-13 revision 50295) [x86_64-darwin14]

```

Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks very much,

Jon

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**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:** [April 7, 2017, 5:12am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-new-failing-on-mac/405/2 "2017-04-07T05:12:54Z")

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i can’t help much - using a pc, but did you read the troubleshooting stuff? there is a fair bit about macs.

> **[Troubleshooting](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/troubleshooting/)**
>
> If you ever run into problems installing or using Jekyll, here are a few tips that might be of help. If the problem you’re experiencing isn’t covered below, please check out our other help resources as well.

plus it seems I have read posts like yours before on here, though maybe not since this site rebooted a couple months ago and lost its old content.

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**Author:** ![mok0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/mok0/32/127_2.png) [@mok0](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/mok0)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 10:19am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-new-failing-on-mac/405/3 "2017-04-07T10:19:38Z")

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Try

```auto
gem install bundler

```

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**Author:** ![duckontheweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@duckontheweb](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/duckontheweb)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-new-failing-on-mac/405/4 "2017-04-07T12:18:07Z")

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Thanks @rdyar, I had skimmed the troubleshooting before but somehow missed  
the `gem update --system` suggestion. That ended up being the thing that  
fixed it.