
(Credit to this Stackoverflow answer for the solution. Running the above code, we’ll get around the issue until hitimers has an update. The authour hasn’t yet released a fat binary for it yet. However, hitimes has only been around since January and If Ruby is already installed in your system you can skip this step and move to the next step. Step 2: Now install Ruby using the following command in your Linux system. But getting it to work under Windows, or even Windows Subsystem for Linux - has been a complete and utter crap fest. Jekyll is - or I should say - was my favorite static site generator. Then use the following command to update the system. I’m literally just blogging this to help save others the hours of crap I went through trying to get Jekyll to run on Windows. It would turn out that typically, there is a fat binary that is rolled into the gem installation of hitimes. Step 1: At first, the Linux terminal should be opened. Gem ins hitimes -v 1.2.1 -platform ruby Explanation Then, chances are you just need to run the following commands in your command prompt: If you receive the following error when trying to run jekyll serve:Ĭ:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in 'require': cannot load such file - hitimes/hitimes (

Though, if you have as much bad luck as me sometimes, well you’ll probably run into a snag using the latest version of Ruby for me that’s the 2.2.x revisions. Actually, it was this guide in particular that Generator that had a fair degree of running on Windows with no issues.

Before migrating my blog over to Jekyll, I did some research and found Jekyll was probably a fairly matured static
