Support for installation via Gemfile.

[lolgear]

So, it would be nice if theme could be installed by Gemfile

gem 'jekyll-theme-pixyll' 

[ashawley]

I worked on this in #334. Please add your 👍 to #333.

[lolgear]

@ashawley done!
Do you need any help to support gems?

[ashawley]

Yeah, my gem patch needs people to review it. If you are familiar with gems and would want to give it a spin, that would be helpful. http://guides.rubygems.org/make-your-own-gem/

[johno]

Thanks for the hard work on this @ashawley 💟 ! Hoping to have time in the next week or so to review and publish to rubygems.

[ashawley]

I am going to go through the jekyll Quick start and enable pixyll as the theme and see if there are issues.

Building a gem means the theme needs to run on a variety of versions of ruby, jekyll, and so on. This is a lot different than using the theme as a repo with pinned dependencies. Might an automated test suite that runs in a variety environments be useful to keep track of whether the gem is working or not? I'm going to propose a Travis config be added in a sepearate PR. Might this conflict with downstream git fork users?

[ashawley]

I found other issues, but @johnotander quickly accepted my PR containing an initial Travis build.
I'll be able to grow the Travis build for the gem branch.

[claudiuconstantin]

Any news here?

[ashawley]

I need to further study a few more issues. See my last comment in #334.

[ashawley]

I'm picking this up again. I was about to close this issue as a duplicate of #333, but wanted to leave it open to discuss one aspect. Should we call the gem/theme pixyll or is there a convention that it should be jekyll-theme-pixyll?:

gem 'jekyll-theme-pixyll' 

I had planning to name it "pixyll", but am happy to open the bikeshedding to everyone. Please comment, but also vote:

[ashawley]

Motion to name the theme: jekyll-theme-pixyll

[ashawley]

Motion to name the theme: pixyll

[plttn]

I'd lean towards jekyll-theme-pixyll simply because it seems to be convention on rubygems.

[claudiuconstantin]

What about pixyll-jekyll?

[ashawley]

I agree. The jekyll-theme-* prefix does seem to be a convention but there are exceptions, including minima.

[johno]

My 2c is that if pixyll is available we should use it! But I'll defer to @ashawley and @plttn.