jekyll-paginate | ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT as of Jekyll | Plugin library

I'm trying to run bundle install using ubuntu 20.04, rvm with ruby 2.7.2, and I can't get the eventmachine gem to install. After googling for hours I couldn't find a solution that works for me. I've tried deleting the lockfile and running bundle, ruby-dev is already installed with the latest version, I've tried running bundle with ruby 2.6.6, updating bundle, updating Jekyll from 4.0.0 to 4.2.0, and no matter what I try I'm still getting these error messages I don't understand, so any help would be VERY appreciated!

Gemfile

I'm using a Azure Devops Pipeline to build my Jekyll Blog Site and to publish it to Azure Blob Storage. It has of late been working OK, but I did a new post today and it failed in the Build step. All worked Ok a day or so ago. Nb: The build is triggered by a commit to to the Devops repository. The site built OK locally.

I tried to add the "Jekyll" workflow to my repository in Github, but every time it runs it is marked as failure.

Here is an error message, I tried to remove Gemfile.lock from exclude (_config.yml) but it didn't help... Here is a repository to which I'm trying to add a workflow: https://github.com/igorkowalczyk/blog

I have a Jekyll site that uses the jekyll-paginate plugin and is hosted by GitHub Pages, pretty standard.

Does anybody know of other solutions to handle pagination such that I could build two blogs from the same site at domain/blog1 and domain/blog2 using this solution, but also retain pagination?

Retaining the current pagination design is not a priority. Creative ideas that require redesign are welcome.

I know jekyll-paginate-multiple exists, but GitHub Pages does not support it natively, and I would have to maintain two repos to maintain the site code and build artifacts separately, which is not ideal.

I'm using Jekyll 2 for my blog. I'm also using jekyll-paginate to display the first 5 posts in the home page.

Now I would like to stop using jekyll-paginate, since it's polluting the sitemap with pages I don't want.

This is how my home page looks like, after removing the pagination:

I'm trying to build my blog on Github pages and I have to use Jekyll-paginate for obvious reasons. The problem is, I don't use the index.html page for anything other than a welcome page. I have a separate page called index.html in a folder called articles, thus the url for the blog should be xyz.github.io/articles/.

However, this presents a major problem - apparently jekyll-paginate refuses to work without an explicit index.html in the root directory of the blog. So, I tried using jekyll-paginate-v2 which has no such restrictions, and it worked perfectly!

However, github pages don't support jekyll-paginate-v2, and thus, I'm back to square 1. What should I do?

NOTE : Here's my code:

When running bundle exec jekyll serve, I get the following: Server address: http://0.0.0.0:4000//

Where does // come from in my config? How do I get rid of it to get http://0.0.0.0:4000/ ?

_config.yaml

I have a variables.scss file that holds all of my sass variables in my root. I want to import it in my other scss files so that I can use these variables:

I'm new to Ruby. I'm getting an error when I run the command bundle update. This is what my Gemfile looks like: