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MagLev tries to be compatible with ruby 1.8.7

So it seems to me that Jekyll should be able to run on it...

And based on this previous question, seems that even some rails applications can run on it...

  • But has anyone actually tried it?
  • What were the problems you had?
  • If you haven't tried it, do you anticipate any major problems?

TIA

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  • Why the downvotes it is a legitimate question. Can Jekyll run on Maglev? is a programming question, can be objectively answered – elviejo79 Apr 08 '13 at 01:53
  • No idea why it is getting downvoted. Out of curiosity, why would you use MagLev for this? – Alexander Ekdahl Apr 11 '13 at 23:25
  • I've read reports that Jekyll starts to be really slow at generating the site at around 500 posts. This is because it regenerates the whole blog everytime you recreate it. And I have a community site with around 6,000 articles. There is a feature planned so that it doesn't regenerate everytime... but not untill jekyll 1.5 or more... So I want to take advantage of MagLev's speed to buy me sometime until jekyll 1.5. – elviejo79 Apr 12 '13 at 16:05
  • There are other ways you could try and optimise Jekyll such as choosing a faster markdown engine. – Alexander Ekdahl Apr 25 '13 at 12:39

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I just tried Jekyll on Maglev's 1.9 branch, and it doesn't work. Maglev falls down when using anything with C extensions; in this case, it's Jekyll's dependency on posix-spawn.

You might wanna check out the docs regarding the state of C extensions on Maglev.

AFAIK, Jekyll doesn't really have persistence (besides static files), so I'm not sure what you'd gain from using Maglev. You can definitely have a lot of fun with Maglev and Sinatra, give them a shot.

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