diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ce1e6be..0b07320 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-# Jekyll and Scss
+#############
+## Jekyll
+#############
+.jekyll-metadata
 _site/
-/sass_cache/
 Gemfile.lock
 
 #############
-## Windows 
+## Windows
 #############
 
 # Windows image file caches
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index eac2ab1..5b93f71 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ source 'https://rubygems.org'
 require 'rbconfig'
 gem 'wdm', '>=0.1.0' if RbConfig::CONFIG['target_os'] =~ /mswin|mingw/i
 gem 'github-pages'
+# force minimum version of pygments.rb to fix windows issue
+gem 'pygments.rb', '>=0.6.1'