ERROR: Error installing jekyll: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension

Question

My system has:

• ruby 2.0.0p451 (2014-02-24) [x64-mingw32]
• gem -version 2.2.2
• devKit : DevKit-mingw64-64-4.7.2-20130224-1432-sfx.exe

Answer 1

I ran into this problem too. Running the following installed Jekyll for me:

$ \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails --autolibs=enabled

$ sudo gem install jekyll

This installs RVM, updates Rails and installs Jekyll.

BTW - Most of the posts I've found indicate it's a problem with Xcode not having the developer tools installed. I have a newer MacBook Pro on which this stuff was installed by default, so attempting to install the Xcode dev tools did nothing for me (unlike the above, which did everything I needed).