Just some random notes on getting jekyll setup on a new windows box.
Used portable-jekyll.
When I first tried to run jekyll server, it didn’t know it had jekyll install, so I ran gem install jekyll which installed it.
I added in the correct Environment Variables - ruby/bin, devkit/bin, curl/bin. Also made a new one for SSL (portable-jekyll has notes about it). Rebooted each time as they don’t seem to get picked up until windows restarts.
Then it was complaining about jekyll-watch and rouge so I installed both of them too.
Eventually it started to work, but was super slow - maybe 60 seconds before it did anything.
I ran gem list to see all the gems that were installed, and almost all had multiple versions.
I then ran gem cleanup which removed a bunch of old gems. It also complained about removing ones that other things depended on, I usually said no to those.
After cleanup it ran very quickly. Then it complained about:
C:/portable-jekyll/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/json-2.0.2/lib/json/version.rb:4: warning: previous definition of VERSION was here
there were several lines like this, so I ran gem uninstall json and it asked which one, I said all. I then did gem list again and json was still there, then did jekyll s and the errors were gone.
Then as it was generating it said:
Please add the following to your Gemfile to avoid polling for changes:
gem 'wdm', '>= 0.1.0' if Gem.win_platform?
So I added gem 'wdm', '>= 0.1.0' to the gemfile and this message went away and all is well.