Conflicting Ruby and Jekyll PATHs?

[Stoic-Student]

What problems are you experiencing?

I'm trying to install Ruby and Jekyll to create a local environment for testing my website.

When following installation instructions, Jekyll doesn't work.

I've already uninstalled and reinstalled several times and on two machines (both Windows). I get the same issue.

Steps to reproduce

I follow the instructions from GitHub and Jekyll to install the packages. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/creating-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/windows/

Installation of Ruby with RubyInstaller works fine. (run as administrator) When I install Jekyll according to the instructions and run 'jekyll -v', I get the error that jekyll command doesnt exist. I edit the PATH settings to the directory given by 'gem env' as EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY, where the actual bin folder for jekyll is located. After a restart, the error changes to: /c/Users/xx/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.2.0/bin/jekyll: line 6: /c/Users/xx/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.2.0/bin/ruby: No such file or directory It looks to me like Jekyll is looking for Ruby in the wrong place. Ruby is located here, as listed in the PATH settings: C:/Ruby32-x64/bin/

The 'gem env' gives the following output:

RubyGems Environment:

• RUBYGEMS VERSION: 3.4.10
• RUBY VERSION: 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 patchlevel 53) [x64-mingw-ucrt]
• INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Users/xx/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.2.0
• USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Users/xx/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.2.0
• RUBY EXECUTABLE: C:/Ruby32-x64/bin/ruby.exe
• GIT EXECUTABLE: C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin/git.EXE
• EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: C:/Users/xx/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.2.0/bin
• SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: C:/Users/xx/.local/share/gem/specs
• SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: C:/ProgramData
• RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
  • ruby
  • x64-mingw-ucrt
• GEM PATHS:
  • C:/Users/xx/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.2.0
  • C:/Ruby32-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0
• GEM CONFIGURATION:
  • :update_sources => true
  • :verbose => true
  • :backtrace => true
  • :bulk_threshold => 1000
  • "gem" => "--no-document"
• REMOTE SOURCES:
  • https://rubygems.org/
• SHELL PATH:
  • C:\Users\xx\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\local\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin
  • C:\Users\xx\bin
  • C:\Ruby32-x64\bin
  • C:\Windows\system32
  • C:\Windows
  • C:\Windows\System32\Wbem
  • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
  • C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH
  • C:\Program Files\dotnet
  • C:\Program Files\nodejs
  • C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
  • C:\Program Files\Calibre2
  • C:\Users\xx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pip
  • C:\Users\xx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts
  • C:\Users\xx.local\share\gem\ruby\3.2.0\bin
  • C:\Ruby32-x64\bin
  • C:\Users\xx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts
  • C:\Users\xx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311
  • C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Shell 8.0\bin
  • C:\Users\xx\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\bin
  • C:\Users\xx\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin
  • C:\Users\xx\AppData\Roaming\npm
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\vendor_perl
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\core_perl

What's the output from ridk version?

bash: ridk: command not found

[mohits]

Hi @Stoic-Student - Could you try using the Windows Command shell instead of bash. I remember reading that some things work better from the command line shell. Thanks!

[Stoic-Student]

@mohits Thanks for the directions. I've changed the approach entirely and mostly followed this guide to install ruby and jekyll. This seems to work for me: https://gist.github.com/arthurattwell/281a5e1888ffd89b08b4861a2e3c1b35