Open source blog as another Backbone, Slim, Rails, Bootstrap sample app
blog.crowdint.com
blog.crowdint.com
1) you are penalized for writing more and more content as your rebuild time will increase the more posts you have.
2) you cannot have any dynamic content that queries the database or dynamically builds the page other than at build-time.
I'm not sure whether the gem created by the OP is the holy-grail of Ruby based blogging, but it does seem as though Jekyll's current popularity is because it's the only decent Rails-based blogging tool out there, not because it's particularly well suited to the task.
Frankly, I'd rather have a Rails blog with page caching than use Jekyll.
I profiled it once, and most of the time was spent shelling out to python to do the syntax highlighting.
Enabling LSI for related posts made it worse.
Maybe its fixed on newer versions.