Webby

Static website generator tool
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  • License:
  • MIT License
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Tim Pease
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://webby.rubyforge.org/
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X
  • File Size:
  • 333 KB

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Webby Description

Static website generator tool Webby is a static website generator tool. Rake tasks are used to convert erb, textile, markdown, etc. formatted files into HTML suitable for publication to a web server.Webby is a fantastic little website management system. It would be called a content management system if it were a bigger kid. But, it's just a runt with a special knack for transforming text. And that's really all it does manages the legwork of turning text into something else, an ASCII Alchemist if you will.Webby works by combining the contents of a page with a layout to produce HTML. The layout contains everything common to all the pages HTML headers, navigation menu, footer, etc. and the page contains just the information for that page. You can use your favorite markup language to write your pages; Webby supports quite a few.Webby has a great autobuild feature that continuously generates HTML whenever the pages or layouts change. The HTML is served up via heel, a static file webserver based on mongrel. Whenever you change a page, you can immediately see those changes without having to run any commands.Webby is not limited to producing HTML. By no means! Do you ever get tired of repeating the same color code #D3C4A2 in your CSS files? Webby can help. Need some customized JavaScript for your website. Webby can help. Anytime you find yourself repeating the same bit of text over and over, then you should be using Webby. Here are some key features of "Webby": · choose your templating language: ERB, Textile, Markdown, HAML, SASS · support for UltraViolet and CodeRay syntax highlighting · embeddable DOT scripts for Graphviz graphs · LaTeX snippets for mathematical formulas · automatically clean up generated content using Tidy · quick and speedy only builds pages that have changed · deploy anywhere it's just HTML, no special server stuff required · happy rake tasks for deploying your website to a server · build new pages from templates for quicker blog posts and news items What's New in This Release: · 6 minor enhancements · Added a Maruku filter (thanks to Martyn Loughran) · Updated to version 0.8.0 of Blueprint css · Better handling of errors generated by filters · Modified how the editor is spawned when creating pages · URLs for index pages now have a trailing slash · Configuration options now have nice descriptions · webby --options · 7 bug fixes · Fixed haml & sass option handling · Work around for a parsing bug in the rdiscount gem (markdown handling) · Editor launching now handles switches passed to the editor · When a page fails to render, it no longer writes an empty file to · the output folder (thereby overwriting the last good page) · Pagination bug · Presentation slides were not being found when headers had attributes · The blog template now has all the CSS files


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