China : gem install jekyll do not work

[zheolong]

I am a Chinese student, when I first run gem install jekyll in my computer, it show that

ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'jekyll' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR:  Possible alternatives: jekyll` 

I tried a lot of ways and finally find the solution:

$ gem sources --remove http://rubygems.org/
$ gem sources -a http://ruby.taobao.org/
$ gem sources -l
*** CURRENT SOURCES ***
http://ruby.taobao.org    
$ gem install rack 

Then, run gem install jekyll and it will work.

[parkr]

Is rubygems.org blocked in China? We're definitely available there: http://rubygems.org/gems/jekyll

[john990]

oh big gfw..........

[yevon-cn]

Sometimes it is well, just as google in China.

[siberiawolf]

I am a Chinese,too. It works,thank you

[ghost]

we all live in gfw

[wayou]

changing the source works like a charm! thanks bro.

[TinkZhang]

Thanks for the solution!
F**K the GFW!!!

[forrestchang]

Thank you very much, it works!

[TrigonaMinima]

I also had the same problem and it was solved by the above solution. Thanks for that. But I am in India and just started using Deepin Linux, which is Chinese.
Is this blocking supposed to be dependent on OS? I can't even understand how both are connected. Isn't it supposed to be dependent on the geographical location?

[TinkZhang]

In China, Amazon S3 is blocked by GFW, so we cannot access rubygems. http://ruby.taobao.org/ provide a mirror, which syncs to official source every 15 minute.
The blocking has no relationship with OS, I think it's your network problem. You can try to ping.

[yomige]

There's a problem in what you have wrritten: $ gem sources --remove http://rubygems.org/ ; it should be $ gem sources --remove https://rubygems.org/ . What's more,Your method does't work for me . But I solved in another way .

[ghost]

gem install jekyll ERROR: Error installing jekyll: The 'fast-stemmer' native gem requires installed build tools. Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit from 'http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads' and follow the instructions at 'http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit'

[kleinfreund]

Do you have devkit installed and is it inside your path variable?

[miafan23]

Thank you very much！

[Q-E-D]

Thx, it could also solve error below:

ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'jekyll' (>= 0), here is why:
      Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (https://api.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)

[zieckey]

1. download the cert file : curl http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem -o cacert.pem
2. add an env : SSL_CERT_FILE=the/path/to/cacert.pem

Please see this blog : http://blog.codeg.cn/2014/12/14/jekyll-install-on-win7/

[ghost]

thx,it works!

[hexiaoyuhaha]

It works !!!
Thank you so much, I'm also a Chinese student

[SeanWit]

Thank you very much,it works!
F**k GFW!!!!!!!,I'm a Chinese too....

[hatakawas]

Thx a lot. It works fine.

[cheng470]

Thank you very much

[ouyangyewei429]

Thanks a lot !

[envygeeks]

This ticket is being locked, there is no need to send a thank you if something helps you, all it does is waste Github bandwidth by having them send dozens of emails and ping @jekyll/core.