liquid

I've been building Shopify themes for the last couple of years. Part of the reason that I've stuck with it so long is that Liquid is really easy to learn. I'm of the opinion that anyone capable of understanding a for loop and if statement can learn the basics of Liquid within a day. I know there are a few other apps that use Liquid, including one of your competitors. See here for a list: http://github.com/tobi/liquid/wiki From an end-user perspective, I'd highly recommend Liquid. I don't see how you can escape having a template language of some sort, and Liquid seems more thought-out than most.

To the best of my recollection, Jekyll itself plays nicely with 1.9.1. It's Liquid that was a problem for me. The Gemcutter.org version of Liquid (2.0) is not 1.9 safe. However, the version at Github (2.1) is. http://github.com/tobi/liquid Since the commit to fix Liquid for 1.9.1 was in April of 2009, I wonder why it's not the version on Gemcutter? (Or some version of that version, if there are other issues...) Edit: Yup, just checked. Jekyll with Liquid 2.1 is fine on 1.9.1. (I'm on OSX here, but the 1.9.1 I checked is also patch level 378.) All of that said, rvm is outstanding.