Error Installing github-pages gem in command line on Windows

Question

I've managed to setup Ruby 1.9.3 and devkit as well as jekyll and a bunch of other gems. However, now when I try installing github-pages gem (gem install github-pages) I get the following error:

Note: I've tried running command line as an admin with no more success

Here's the output from my command line:

Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit... Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing github-pages: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby.exe -r ./siteconf20141208-60036-a7hzln.rb extconf.rb creating Makefile

make clean Makefile:165: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.

make Makefile:165: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.

make failed, exit code 2

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/redcarpet -3.1.2 for inspection. Results logged to C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/extensions/x86-mingw32/1.9.1/re dcarpet-3.1.2/gem_make.out

Answer 1

Well I couldn't find the answer on SO so I looked around elsewhere and was able to find the answer on GitHub. Please see here:

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/977

Basically, if you're getting this error on Windows using RubyGems 1.9.3 (which I was) you need to downgrade to 1.8.29 until this is fixed. Glad to know it's not just me making this error!

How to downgrade, you may be asking? On Windows:

gem update --system 1.8.29

I downgraded and had no trouble installing the other gem files I needed.