middleman-gh-pages

https://github.com/edgecase/middleman-gh-pages solves this problem by letting you do all your work on the master branch, then your build script compiles all your assets and commits them to the gh-pages branch, so it doesn't pollute your Git history.

As a rails dev i can confirm this. Jekyll always felt a little bit cumbersome when you are used to all the Rails goodies like sprockets. Since I discovered the middleman-deploy[1] gem, I also use it for my Github Pages, without any additional effort. 1) https://github.com/tvaughan/middleman-deploy (or have a look at https://github.com/neo/middleman-gh-pages as an alternative)

Having used LESS for a long time I've switched to SCSS because the debugging is so much better. I found that less would often fail silently and just truncate the style sheet. I'm a rubyist and I've found since switching that the framework support is a bit better as well. The value of the compass framework[1] also can't be overstated, it's a fantastic standard library for css3 etc. There doesn't really seem to be an equivalent for less. If you're looking for a simple setup that will allow you to use SCSS I can't recommend middleman[2] enough, it's easy to setup and you can use livereload with it very easily (admittedly it does require ruby...). If you're on github you can even get free hosting using middleman-gh-pages[3]. [1] http://compass-style.org/ [2] http://middlemanapp.com/ [3] https://github.com/neo/middleman-gh-pages