Running Jekyll on CentOS 5.6

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yum install rdoc ri zlib zlib-devel
yum install ruby-devel
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
tar -zxvf rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.5
ruby setup.rb
gem install jekyll
 
Results in:
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ERROR:  Error installing jekyll:
  liquid requires RubyGems version >= 1.3.7
 
Suggestion:
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gem update --system
 
Results in: 
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Updating RubyGems
Updating rubygems-update
ERROR:  Error installing rubygems-update:
  rubygems-update requires Ruby version >= 1.8.7
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
  undefined method `version' for nil:NilClass
 
Suggestion: install Ruby 1.8.7
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yum install -y gcc zlib zlib-devel
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p330.tar.gz
tar xvf ruby-1.8.7-p330.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.7-p330
./configure --enable-pthread
make
make install
 
Results in:
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Ruby installed in /usr/bin/ruby and /usr/local/bin/ruby
 
Fix:
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cd /usr/bin
mv ruby ruby-1.8.5
ln /usr/local/bin/ruby .
 
gem update --system
gem install jekyll
 
Installed!