jekyll 3.8.6 | Error: wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1)

[sudhiry]

I am getting below error:

$ npm run local

> chalk@ local /Users/<user>/Documents/projects/blog/chalk
> bundle exec jekyll serve --drafts

Configuration file: /Users/<user>/Documents/projects/blog/chalk/_config.yml
            Source: /Users/<user>/Documents/projects/blog/chalk
       Destination: /Users/<user>/Documents/projects/blog/chalk/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating... 
jekyll 3.8.6 | Error:  wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! chalk@ local: `bundle exec jekyll serve --drafts`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the chalk@ local script.

Trace logs:

ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1)
  /Users/<user>/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.3/gems/jekyll-assets-3.0.12/lib/jekyll/assets/manifest.rb:58:in `find_directory_manifest'
  /Users/<user>/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.3/gems/sprockets-4.0.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:56:in `initialize'
  /Users/<user>/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.3/gems/jekyll-assets-3.0.12/lib/jekyll/assets/manifest.rb:29:in `initialize'
  /Users/<user>/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.3/gems/jekyll-assets-3.0.12/lib/jekyll/assets/env.rb:48:in `new'

Machine: MacOS Catalina.

Can you please help me to solve the issue?

[jameshyen]

Getting a similar error on both my Windows machine, and macOS. It seems very Ruby-specific. Any attempt I make at fixing the issue, either by updating Gems, or elevating permissions, seems to fail to circumvent it. Anyone got an idea on what it might be?

[jameshyen]

So if you enter the Gemfile and remove the 3.8.6 requirement from Jekyll, it will install 4.0.0, which is slightly more verbose about the error. The error will say that _includes/head.html fails to locate og-image.jpg. This can be remedied by adding _assets/images to sources in the _config.yml file. However, I am now getting an error that there are two incompatible character encodings in layouts/post.html: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT.

Edit: the above encoding error was just something specific to my setup. I was able to fix it my going through some of the Markdown and HTML files and making sure their line-endings were CR instead of LF. But I am now getting an error regarding inability to find some of the SVG icons. It seems like the error is Jekyll Assets/Liquid related.

[cartjonye]

I run bundle exec jekyll serve --trace and i found something that might be a root cause of the problem.

Traceback (most recent call last):
 ...
     3: from C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/jekyll-assets-3.0.12/lib/jekyll/assets/env.rb:48:in `new'
     2: from C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/jekyll-assets-3.0.12/lib/jekyll/assets/manifest.rb:29:in `initialize'
     1: from C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/sprockets-4.0.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:56:in `initialize'
 C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/jekyll-assets-3.0.12/lib/jekyll/assets/manifest.rb:58:in `find_directory_manifest': wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1) (ArgumentError)

From the stacktrace it seems that the issue is sprockets 4.0.0 breaks recent version of jekyll-assets (3.0.12 as the writings).

I search for suggestions and comments regarding the issue and i found rgant's comment in https://github.com/envygeeks/jekyll-assets/issues/622, which is suggesting that forcing sprockets to earlier version in Gemfile might do the trick.

gem "sprockets", "~> 3.7"

[jameshyen]

@cartjonye confirmed, thank you. The above fix is working for me.