Conflict between jekyll-sass-converter / sass-embedded (jekyll dep) and alpine

[RagingRoosevelt]

Trying to install jekyll (gem install jekyll step) fails on a dependency installation of sass-embedded (I think required by jekyll-sass-converter). I've tried specifying all of the recent versions of sass-embedded but all fail with

NotImplementedError: sass_embedded for x86_64-linux-musl not available at https://github.com/sass/dart-sass-embedded/releases/tag/<X.Y.Z>

Searching further, it looks like the -musl specifier is a alpine thing. Someone in the comments of a sass-embedded issue pointed to this note from jekyll. Following the hint in that readme, it appears that the following steps will help this build successfully:

1. Add the following to the Gemfile:

   # This is necessary to deal with incompatibility with alpine in future
   # versions of sass-converter
   gem "jekyll-sass-converter", "~> 1.0"
   

   and optionally

   gem "jekyll-paginate", "~> 1.1.0"
   

2. In the dockerfile, remove everything after gem update bundler
3. If the user copies the Gemfile, it is no longer necessary to bundle init, so starting up for the first time becomes
   1. bundle install
   2. bundle update
   3. bundle exec jekyll new --force --skip-bundle .
   4. bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload

[BillRaymond]

Thank you for introducing this issue here. A lot has changed since I created that video, so I am producing a new one. However, I am going to re-type what you are suggesting:

1. Run:

bundle exec jekyll new --force --skip-bundle .

3. In the gemfile, add the line:

gem "jekyll-sass-converter", "< 3.0"'

4. Run bundle install
5. Run bundle update

Now you can run bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload

I will update this document but am working on a new video series and a new repo for this topic. I will leave this comment open so I remember to share the details with you when ready.

[trainmore]

Hey, Bill. Thank you so much for this helpful tutorial. I ran into this same issue earlier today, and was able to work around it by updating all rubygems in the dockerfile:
# Update the Ruby bundler and install Jekyll
RUN gem update --system
RUN gem update bundler && gem install bundler jekyll

Not sure if that is helpful, but wanted to share. Thanks again.

[trainmore]

gem "jekyll-sass-converter", "< 3.0"'

There appears to be an extra backtick here in this code snippet above.

Step 3. (er 2) should read
gem "jekyll-sass-converter", "< 3.0"

[trainmore]

Upon further testing, @RagingRoosevelt provided a working solution already. However, I still had to run bundle init after building and opening the container in VS Code to create the initial Gemfile for editing:

On STEP 6: Create a dockerfile and a Docker container, remove the install of jekyll from the last line (14) of the code snippet:
updated:
RUN gem update bundler && gem install bundler #jekyll

On to STEP 7: Build the Jekyll website
In the terminal window for the container in Dev Container:
bundle init

Then open the newly created Gemfile to add the following:
# This is necessary to deal with incompatibility with alpine in future
# versions of sass-converter
gem "jekyll-sass-converter", "~> 1.0"

Then, continue on with STEP 7: Build the Jekyll website as written:
# --- Decision time!
# Either install Jekyll 3.9.x for for Official ....
...

Hope this is helpful or useful @BillRaymond