The wdm gem allows for the polling of the directory and rebuilding of the Jekyll site when you make changes. You may need to use your File Explorer and browse to the directory, and then open the Gemfile in a text editor such as Notepad. Typically you can open files from the Command Prompt by just typing the filename, but because Gemfile doesn’t have a file extension, no program will automatically open it.

Delete or rename the existing Gemfile and Gemfile.lock files.

Browse to the directory where you downloaded the Documentation theme for Jekyll.

You install Bundler by using the gem command with RubyGems: Install Bundler You can use it to get all the gems (or Ruby plugins) that you need for your Jekyll project.

(Although you don’t need to install Bundler for this Documentation theme, it’s a good idea to do so.)īundler is a package manager for RubyGems.

You can install these dependencies through Bundler. These dependencies are stored in something called a Gemfile, which is packaged with the Jekyll theme.

Some Jekyll themes will require certain Ruby gem dependencies.

You can now use Jekyll to create new Jekyll sites following the quick-start instructions on.

Gem install jekyll freezes