Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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None
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None
Description
While trying to build and preview the website locally for calcite and calcite-avatica, I noticed that the development mode feature for docker stopped working:
{{ Auto-regeneration: enabled for '/srv/jekyll'
/usr/gem/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/jekyll/commands/serve/servlet.rb:3:in `require': cannot load such file – webrick (LoadError)
from /usr/gem/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/jekyll/commands/serve/servlet.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
from /usr/gem/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/jekyll/commands/serve.rb:184:in `require_relative'
from /usr/gem/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/jekyll/commands/serve.rb:184:in `setup'
from /usr/gem/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/jekyll/commands/serve.rb:102:in `process'
from /usr/gem/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/jekyll/commands/serve.rb:93:in `block in start'
from /usr/gem/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/jekyll/commands/serve.rb:93:in `each'
from /usr/gem/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/jekyll/commands/serve.rb:93:in `start'
from /usr/gem/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/jekyll/commands/serve.rb:75:in `block (2 levels) in init_with_program'
from /usr/gem/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `block in execute'
from /usr/gem/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `each'
from /usr/gem/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `execute'
from /usr/gem/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/program.rb:42:in `go'
from /usr/gem/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary.rb:19:in `program'
from /usr/gem/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/exe/jekyll:15:in `<top (required)>'
from /usr/local/bundle/bin/jekyll:27:in `load'
from /usr/local/bundle/bin/jekyll:27:in `<main>'}}
This seems to be fixed in Jekyll 4.2.2 and 3.9.2, but the docker image we are using is only updating the 4.x versions: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/8523
However, while trying to update Jekyll, I found it strange that Jekyll was pinned to 3.9.2 and could not be upgraded. Upon further investigation, it looks like github-pages gems locks us to Jekyll 3.9.2 and due to compatibility reasons for Github, they don't seem motivated to upgrade: https://github.com/github/pages-gem/issues/651
The github-pages gem creates an environment that mirrors the Github pages build environment. However, in our builds happen in a jekyll container in docker using Github actions, so it seems that github-page is not required.
This issue tracks upgrading to jekyll 4 and removing the github-pages gem for the calcite website.