Installing native Ruby extensions on Windows for Jekyll

Question

I\'m about to go crazy here so I\'ll just ask:

How the hell do you install the Ruby Gem Jekyll on Windows.

Jekyll depends on fast-stemmer-1.0.0 and that has to b

Answer 1

There is a confusion with the instructions you're following. The instructions at RubyInstaller DevKit were created to support installation of extensions using RubyInstaller compiled versions of Ruby.

It is clear, from your current directory (visual studio) and the output of the gem installation you're using mswin32 based Ruby, which will not work with RubyInstaller or the DevKit we documented.

Please install Ruby and the DevKit from RubyInstaller website and follow the instructions there and avoid mixing with Visual Studio