Enhance Jekyll deploy workflow by adding build dependencies and improving Ruby setup

Author: jetzlstorfer

.github/workflows/jekyll-deploy.yml

@@ -35,22 +35,32 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install build dependencies
-        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake pkg-config libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
 
       - name: Setup Ruby
-        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@4a9ddd6f338a97768b8006bf671dfbad383215f4
+        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
         with:
           ruby-version: '3.1'
           bundler-cache: true
-          cache-version: 0
+          cache-version: 1
 
-      - name: Update Bundler
+      - name: Clear bundle cache if needed
         run: |
-          gem install bundler --user-install
-          echo "$HOME/.gem/ruby/3.2.0/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          if [ -f .bundle/config ]; then
+            echo "Bundle config exists, clearing cache"
+            bundle clean --force
+          fi
 
       - name: Install dependencies
-        run: bundle install
+        run: |
+          bundle install --retry 3 || \
+          (echo "Native extensions failed, trying with ruby platform..." && \
+           bundle config set force_ruby_platform true && \
+           bundle install --retry 3)
+        env:
+          BUNDLE_FORCE_RUBY_PLATFORM: false
 
       - name: Setup Pages
         id: pages

Gemfile

@@ -7,4 +7,8 @@ gem "jekyll-feed" # Create an Atom feed using the official Jekyll feed gem
 gem "jekyll-seo-tag"
 gem "jekyll-redirect-from" # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31166747/jekyll-default-page
 gem "jekyll-datapage-generator"
-gem "sass-embedded", "~>  1.93.2" # For Jekyll to process SCSS files
+gem "sass-embedded", "~> 1.93.2" # For Jekyll to process SCSS files
+
+# Platform-specific gems for better compatibility
+gem "ffi", "~> 1.17", platforms: [:mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin]
+gem "google-protobuf", "~> 4.33", force_ruby_platform: false