Hello,
Starting w/ Jekyll v3.3 you can package your themes (layouts,
includes, assets) into gems. To show how easy it is to add a new
scaffold to quik/qk [1] - the missing code generator / scaffolder for
ruby. I've put together a new scaffold for gem-packaged jekyll themes
that mirrors/copies the $ jekyll new-theme command. Try:
$ quik new jekyll-theme
to get started. This will use the jekyll-theme.rb [2] quik starter script and
the quickstart/jekyll-starter-theme template [3] - just a plain git repo.
If anyone tries out qk/quik, let us know what you think.
PS: You're invited to add your own scaffolds (gem starters, sinatra
starters, jekyll starters, etc.)
PPS: Use $ gem install quik if you haven't yet installed qk/quik 
[1] https://github.com/quikstart
[2] https://github.com/quikstart/scripts/blob/master/jekyll-theme.rb
[3] https://github.com/quikstart/jekyll-starter-theme/tree/master/template