I’m migrating from older MacBook (Intel i7, Big Sur) to new one (M3, Sonoma). On i7, Big Sur, Jekyll works fine running ruby 3.1.3p185 jekyll 3.9.2 I haven’t had problems. On M3, Sonoma I did a clean install of ruby 3.3.0 jekyll 3.9.3 Everything installs but the server won’t run. bundle exe…

So that suggests I install Jekyll 4.3.3. Sounds like a good idea, but the gem installer doesn’t find it. Any pointers for how to do that install? Thanks!

I am unfamiliar with the error message you are highlighting. I created a video sharing how to install Jekyll on Apple Silicon. You might want to check it out. At minimum, you can see if there are any steps you might have missed. [Install Jekyll on Apple Silicon (Jamstack)]

Thanks Bill R - will take a look and let you know. The key point here is that I had no problem previously on Mac - I’ve been using Jekyll on i7 macbook for the past year. It’s only on the new device/OS there’s a problem.

I created that video because I had many problems switching from Intel to M-series. There are, of course, updated docs on the official Jekyll site. I [mostly] followed those but found my approach in the video slightly easier to work with. [image] Jekyll on macOS Supported macOS versions …

Great!! All resolved :slight_smile: Your video was really helpful, thanks! In the end it came down to ruby conflicts which had to do (somehow) with my installation using chruby and ruby-install. I solved the problem by completely uninstalling all rubies except for base, then following your brew ins…

Great news! Enjoy Jekyll’ing!

Seems it’s an issue with ruby 3.3.0 and github-pages. I ran into same issue when homebrew forcefully upgraded my ruby version. It’s fixed by downgrading ruby to 3.2.3. There’s an alternate method I found using rbenv - I just saw Bill R’s post about using chruby above and never tried that out - but …

Unable to install Jekyll on M3 macbook

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