Problem with location in which gem install by default

[janohirmas]

What problems are you experiencing?

I cannot execute jekyll from by Bash terminal

Steps to reproduce

I followed the instructions from the website. Everything is installed, but when I type:
$ jekyll -v
/c/Users/username/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/jekyll: line 6: /c/Users/username/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/ruby: No such file or directory

Then I type:
$ where jekyll
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\jekyll
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\jekyll.bat

What's the output from ridk version?

[mohits]

Can you try Windows command shell?

[MSP-Greg]

@janohirmas

This may be an issue with RubyGems. Can you post:

• output from gem env using a bash shell?
• contents of C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\jekyll

I noticed some problems locally, but I have a 'unique' windows setup.

[larskanis]

You probably installed in multi-user-mode. This can make gem installs more difficult. Unless you really want to work with multiple users, you should install in single user mode.

See https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller2/wiki/FAQ#user-content-install-mode

[janohirmas]

This may be an issue with RubyGems. Can you post:

• output from gem env using a bash shell?
• contents of C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\jekyll

I noticed some problems locally, but I have a 'unique' windows setup.

@MSP-Greg, the gem env:
RubyGems Environment:

• RUBYGEMS VERSION: 3.5.16
• RUBY VERSION: 3.3.5 (2024-09-03 patchlevel 100) [x64-mingw-ucrt]
• INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/RubyGems
• USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Users/XXX/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.3.0
• RUBY EXECUTABLE: C:/Ruby33-x64/bin/ruby.exe
• GIT EXECUTABLE: C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin/git.EXE
• EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: C:/RubyGems/bin
• SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: C:/Users/XXX/.cache/gem/specs
• SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: C:/ProgramData
• RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
  • ruby
  • x64-mingw-ucrt
• GEM PATHS:
  • C:/RubyGems
• GEM CONFIGURATION:
  • :update_sources => true
  • :verbose => true
  • :backtrace => true
  • :bulk_threshold => 1000
  • "# Feel free to add any rubygems config options as described on" => nil
• REMOTE SOURCES:
  • https://rubygems.org/
• SHELL PATH:
  • C:\Users\XXX\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\local\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin
  • C:\Users\XXX\bin
  • C:\Windows\system32
  • C:\Windows
  • C:\Windows\System32\Wbem
  • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
  • C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH
  • C:\Program Files\dotnet
  • C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
  • C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313
  • C:\Ruby33-x64\bin
  • C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Scripts
  • C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313
  • C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Launcher
  • C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
  • C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin
  • C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\vendor_perl
  • C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\core_perl
  • C:\RubyGems\bin
  • C:\RubyGems\bin

I managed to fully uninstall Ruby, and to install it for the user, as @larskanis suggested. Now jekyll is in ruby gems:
$ where jekyll
C:\RubyGems\bin\jekyll
C:\RubyGems\bin\jekyll.bat

But I still get this output:
$ jekyll -v
/c/RubyGems/bin/jekyll: line 6: /c/RubyGems/bin/ruby: No such file or directory

It is worth noting that if I run jekyll via Ruby it works:
$ ruby -S jekyll -v
jekyll 4.3.4

Also $ ruby -S jekyll serve works