I've recently discovered that the jekyll command doesn't work anymore on my computer, after perfectly using it for several months.

Whenever I try to run a jekyll command, it says:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:319:in `to_specs':

    Could not find 'jekyll' (>= 0) among 34 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError)

Checked in 'GEM_PATH=/Users/Mael/.gem/ruby/2.3.0:/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0:/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0',

    execute `gem env` for more information

    from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:328:in `to_spec'

    from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:65:in `gem'

    from /usr/local/bin/jekyll:22:in `<main>'

I'm on macOS Sierra (10.12.6).

Xcode is installed

I have Xcode installed on my computer:

$ xcode-select --install

xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates

Reinstalling Jekyll

Checking ruby version and (re)installing bundler

So I tried reinstalling Jekyll as I did the first time:

$ ruby -v

ruby 2.3.7p456 (2018-03-28 revision 63024) [universal.x86_64-darwin16]



$ sudo gem install bundler

Successfully installed bundler-1.17.1

Parsing documentation for bundler-1.17.1

Done installing documentation for bundler after 4 seconds

1 gem installed

Creating a Gemfile

I created a Gemfile which contains:

gem 'github-pages'

source 'https://rubygems.org'

Bundle install (here come the issues)

And ran, in the directory that contains the Gemfile:

$ bundle install

Here, the installation doesn't work, it says:

An error occurred while installing commonmarker (0.17.13), and Bundler cannot continue.

Make sure that `gem install commonmarker -v '0.17.13' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'` succeeds before bundling.



In Gemfile:

  github-pages was resolved to 192, which depends on

    jekyll-commonmark-ghpages was resolved to 0.1.5, which depends on

      jekyll-commonmark was resolved to 1.2.0, which depends on

        commonmarker

So I tried the gem install commonmarker -v '0.17.13' --source 'https://rubygems.org/' command, and it says:

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...

ERROR:  Error installing commonmarker:

        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.



    current directory: /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/commonmarker-0.17.13/ext/commonmarker

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20181112-6105-u9aca2.rb extconf.rb

creating Makefile



current directory: /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/commonmarker-0.17.13/ext/commonmarker

make "DESTDIR=" clean



current directory: /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/commonmarker-0.17.13/ext/commonmarker

make "DESTDIR="

make: *** No rule to make target `/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.13.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0/universal-darwin16/ruby/config.h', needed by `arena.o'.  Stop.



make failed, exit code 2



Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/commonmarker-0.17.13 for inspection.

Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/extensions/universal-darwin-16/2.3.0/commonmarker-0.17.13/gem_make.out

I noticed that I have several jekyll and github-pages gems in my /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems (2.0.0) directory:

github-pages-146

github-pages-health-check-1.3.5

...

jekyll-3.4.5

jekyll-avatar-0.4.2

jekyll-coffeescript-1.0.1

[and several other jekyll directories]

...

But not in my /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems (2.3.0) directory! (the one which seems to be targeted by the GEM_PATH when running a jekyll command)

So, maybe I did something that changed the version or something. (I've recently installed osxfuse and sshfs (via brew), I don't know if it has anything to do with the issue?)

I don't know anything about Ruby, Gems system, and so on. Maybe the solution is obvious but I've tried several things with no success.

(Sorry it's a bit long but I wanted to be as clear as possible!)

I'm not a mac user and not real familiar with ruby, but when I see ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension it usually has to do with not having the ruby version that includes the devkit.

As I understand it, you can get ruby with the devkit or ruby without the devkit, if there is no devkit it can't build some of the gems it needs. On a PC the devkit is required in order to install all of the jekyll dependencies.

I found a solution, that I think is very not clean, but works for now.

I have two directories in /Library/Ruby/Gems/:

• 
  2.0.0/
  
  
  
  
  • gems/
  
  
  • specifications/
  
  
  • ...
  
  
  
  


• 
  2.3.0/
  
  
  
  
  • gems/
  
  
  • specifications/
  
  
  • ...
  
  
  
  

The error output, when I try to run jekyll, tells that it checks (among others) in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0, but as I said in my question, there aren't any jekyll-related file in there.

So, I manually copied all the files from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems and /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/specifications and pasted them in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems and /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/specifications respectively.

I guess that the files I've copied are maybe outdated for the Ruby version I have (?), but it works perfectly.

Maybe there is a more conventional way to make it work?

I also don't work with Ruby, but I had a similar problem on Mac OS 10.12.6 and here is how I solved it.

This is likely caused by some disagreement between the system Ruby environment and Jekyll, and the easiest way to fix it is to create a new environment altogether.

First you should use rvm to manage your ruby versions to avoid delete the system Ruby and break your OS. After you set up rvm, run

rvm install 2.3.3

to install Ruby 2.3.3 (which is what I used). After it finished, make this the default Ruby version in your system:

rvm --default use 2.3.3

then I did the following:

gem install bundler

gem install jekyll

bundle install

and Jekyll worked for me again.

Hope that helps.