[Proposal] Ship a portable ruby runtime instead of Pretzel #19
Description
Rather than try and implement more and more features of Jekyll and Liquid, why not explore if you could include a portable ruby environment (sandboxed inside the package) which then takes care of the jekyll --auto development experience?
Benefits
- compatibility with Jekyll and Liquid
- leverage the existing ecosystem of plugins
- development environment will be equivalent to gh-pages/Heroku
- better cross-platform support (no need for Mono or Win32)
- one language for extensibility (better out-of-the-box experience)
Costs
- does not address dependency on Powershell
- would need to know Ruby if you wanted to contribute extensions
- update all the things
TODO:
- demonstrate how init.ps1 would need to change
- demonstrate how to ship gems inside sandbox environment
- demonstrate how to update Start-Preview script to suit