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You don't have to be a Ruby person but it helps when your Ruby dependencies break, then your Jekyll blog won't build and you have no idea why! I tend to blow i

• danso 10y ago
  That's true, but if you're a relatively seasoned developer, the ecosystem is stable enough that you can manage. By "stable", I mean, being able to run homebrew and install something like rbenv. I can't remember the last time Jekyll up and failed on me, but for other projects, it's straightforward to blow away a Ruby install and start clean. Admittedly, I'm not sure how easy it is to find canonical Ruby management tutorials when starting out. I think Ruby's system is somewhat simpler than npm, but only because I don't do too much with Ruby and don't often need to change things around.
• feoyen 10y ago
  After having to "blow it all away and start again" a few times myself, I now use Jekyll via Docker. Jekyll themselves take care of all the dependencies and my machine can stay clean. https://github.com/jekyll/docker/wiki/Usage:-Running https://github.com/jekyll/docker/wiki/Usage:-Running