

I highly recommended the free Windows Environment Variables Editor which greatly improves that experience over the default Windows Environment variable UI, even in Windows 10. This guide assumes that you know how to modify the PATH and set environment variables. If you have Ruby, Ruby Development Kit and Bundler already installed and working, feel free to skip down to the 2. For example:įirst we need to make sure that we have all dependencies for Jekyll on Windows 10. If you would like to learn how to make a new Github Pages Jekyll Project please see step 2 and 3 in the official github pages guide, or look into other tutorials. How to create a new Jekyll project or how to use Github pages.Errors regarding Github Authentication when trying to run jekyll serve.Errors regarding SSL authentication when trying to run jekyll serve.Errors while compiling the json gem in Ruby.The setup required to serve existing jekyll projects on Windows 10.I hope it helps anyone else that has issues getting jekyll serve to just work as intended.

Having struggled through this twice now on two separate Windows installations, I’m making this guide so that at least I’ll be able to refer to it quickly. While there are several guides for installing jekyll for Windows ( official github pages article, Run Jekyll on Windows) They seem to skip some key points that have given me trouble with the latest version of ruby (2.3.3 as of this writing) on Windows 10. This blog is hosted on github pages using jekyll, a static website generator.
