There will be other stuff at the top of the Gemfile-just ignore it. Pop open your code editor and add this line to the bottom of Gemfile: You’ll now have a new file in your folder, named Gemfile. Make sure to now open the correct folder in Terminal, the best way to do that is from GitHub Desktop’s Open in Terminal menu item:

We can now configure our folder, telling Bundler which gems to install for us. It may ask you two different questions, you can answer “yes” to both of the questions. Run this command to get the newest version:īundler may confirm if you want to overwrite the previous version. It interacts with Ruby’s Gem system and will find and install gems on our behalf: Jekyll is one of those such gems.

We need to update our $PATH variables so our computer knows where to find this new version of Ruby we installed.Įcho 'export PATH='/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH'' > ~/.bash_profileīundler is an application that will install Ruby apps for us. bash_profile when it completes the Ruby installation, in the big info dump. Using brew we can install the most recent version of Ruby. When complete, hit Return.įirst we need to install the programming language Jekyll is written in: Ruby. As you type it in you won’t see anything-but it is being entered. It will prompt you for your computer’s password. Paste it into your Terminal and hit return, your computer will go off an install Homebrew. On the page, you’ll see a chunk of code-copy it. Homebrew is a package manager for Mac & Terminal-it’s like an app store, but specifically in terminal and mostly for developer tools. You won’t see anything new on your computer, everything happens in the background. It will prompt you to install and approve a terms of use then download and install the tools on your computer.

You can install the command line tools directly from Terminal.

We need to install the Command Line Tools before installing Jekyll using Terminal. If you have an older version of Mac OS X, specifically 10.8 and below, ☛ See the Older Mac OS X installation guide. On Mac it isn’t too difficult to install Jekyll, but it does require everything to be completed from within Terminal.

Gem install jekyll bundler brew