Speed up build time for webpage about bio_mobilization_workshop HOT 4 CLOSED

There isn't any executable code, right? It is all just markdown rendering that is needed. Since we are using R to render I think we still need R around though.

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There isn't any executable code, right?

Correct, no executable code.

Since we are using R to render I think we still need R around though.

That's where I wasn't sure. We render some static R code on the pages, but does that need a full R environment? The way I'm reading the action is that it looks for R markdown documents

which we don't have any:

https://github.com/ioos/bio_mobilization_workshop/tree/gh-pages/_episodes_rmd

Looking closer, there are if statements in the action which skip the R stuff if there aren't .rmd files. For example,
https://github.com/ioos/bio_mobilization_workshop/actions/runs/4757453050/jobs/8454289924#step:7:1

The big time sucks are:

• bio_mobilization_workshop/.github/workflows/website.yml

  Lines 30 to 32 in a4c03c5

  	- name: Install GitHub Pages, Bundler, and kramdown gems
  	run: |
  	gem install github-pages bundler kramdown kramdown-parser-gfm

• bio_mobilization_workshop/.github/workflows/website.yml

  Lines 91 to 92 in a4c03c5

  	- name: Render the markdown and confirm that the site can be built
  	run: make site

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Those are (1) jekyll installation steps, (2) jekyll rendering steps.
They are essential for turning the md into html.

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Not much we can do about it then. 🤷

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