Ben Balter just released a 0.1.0 version of a gem that allows users to specify a GitHub hosted theme as remote theme.
Theme developers are encouraged to send some feedback.
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Thanks very much for letting us know!
Nice! Will test and report back any issues or feedback.
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Posted my findings here https://github.com/benbalter/jekyll-remote-theme/issues/8 incase anyone wants to tag on their testing results cc @mmistakes
I had the same experience as you with Jekyll plugins that are declared as dependencies in the theme’s gempsec… had to add them to the Gemfile and plugins array in _config.yml manually.
Probably won’t be an issue if/when the Jekyll remote theme plugin is supported on GitHub Pages since that gem will pull in dependencies like Jekyll-seo-tag, sitemap, feed, paginate, etc.
I guess the only issue would be for theme gems using non-whitelisted gems in non-GitHub Pages environments.
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Did you try changing the locale of the test site?
(just wondering, how the remote-theme plugin works with non-whitelisted plugins (e.g. jekyll-data))
Yes tried it two ways locally, both fell back to the default English locale texts.
Since with jekyll-remote-theme you aren’t really using the gem version of MM it’s not installing any of its dependencies. So none of the bundled _data files are used and it falls back to the default values in the theme layouts.
I also tried adding gem "jekyll-data" to the local Gemfile, and as expected it’s ignored by GitHub Pages.
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