Gem install jekyll path not found
I left the installation path as C:\Ruby193. (The latter may not strictly speaking be necessary for Jekyll, but I suppose it’s useful if you want to do Ruby development in the future.) In the Ruby installer, tick both Add Ruby executables to your PATH and Associate. The site recommends Ruby 1.9.3, so I went with that I’d tried 2.0.0 previously and ran into some issues. Grab Ruby and the Development Kit from here. So I decided to just nuke it and start from scratch. The bundle worked for the most part, though I ran into issues when trying to get Nokogiri installed. The motivation for writing this was because I had to do this twice recently: once on a new computer, and once on my existing one after clearing out the PortableJekyll bundle. They aren’t really part of the instructions, so feel free to skip them if you’re in a rush. I’ve included some side comments in blockquotes like this.
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I noticed a bunch of other guides (including the one linked from Jekyll’s site itself) were fairly out of date, so here’s my no-nonsense take on how to get Jekyll up and running on Windows as quickly as possible. (I guess this doesn’t help in that respect either.) Update (12th May 2014): I came across this linked from within an issue on Jekyll’s GitHub repository, which is much more up to date (and well-maintained) than this post. Update (1st Feb 2015): Jekyll 3 beta 1 is out - if you’re interested in running that instead,