Installing jekyll in CentOS 5:

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# Installing jekyll in CentOS 5:

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS release 5.8 (Final)

$ sudo yum remove ruby ruby-devel ruby-irb rubygems ruby-rdoc   # remove all system's ruby

$ wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p330.tar.gz  # the most recent version I could compile in Centos 5.8

$ tar zxvf ruby-1.9.2-p330.tar.gz
$ cd ruby-1.9.2-p330.tar.gz
$  ./configure --enable-pthread --prefix=$HOME/bin/ruby-1.9.2/   # I want to install it in ~/bin/
$ make ; make install
$ ln -s ~/bin/ruby-1.9.2/bin/ruby ~/bin/ruby
$ ln -s ~/bin/ruby-1.9.2/bin/gem ~/bin/gem

$ gem install  jekyll -v 1.5.1   # 1.5.1  is the most recent version of listen I could compile (with ruby 1.9.2)
$ ln -s ~/bin/ruby-1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-1.5.1/bin/jekyll ~/bin/jekyll 

$ jekyll -v
jekyll 1.5.1
$ ~/bin/jekyll  serve  # now it should work