webgen is a Web site generator implemented in Ruby. Ruby webgen is used to generate static Web sites from templates and page description files. Ruby webgen is easy to use and extensible through plugins.
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Here are some key features of "Ruby webgen":
webgen core:
· Easily extendable through plugins
· Easy to install and use
· Uses templates for separating layout from content
· Easy to configure if one needs to (no need if you are happy with the default values)
· Command line interface uses command style syntax (like Subversion's svn command)
· Fast
File Handler (for handling the files in the source directory):
· Powerful file copy handler for copying single files or entire directories to the output directory
· Support for gallery definition files generates entire image galleries, with automatic thumbnail creation
Page Description Files (for define web pages):
· Support for ERB (embedded Ruby) in page description files and in templates
· Supports several different content formats (Textile, Markdown, RDOC, plain HTML), new ones are easy to add
· Support for specifying meta information (e.g. title, menu ordering information, ...)
· Tags (used for easily adding dynamic content to web pages)
· Standard distribution provides often used tags
· Menu tag can generate different types of menus (simple menus and ones with CSS drop downs)
· Breadcrumb trail tag generates a breadcrumb trail so that one always knows where he is in the hierarchy
· Relocatable tag for automatically generating correct relative paths to files
· ... and much more!
Other Features:
· Automatically checks generated files if they are standard conform
· Supports 'virtual files' via meta information backing files
· Support for automatic smiley replacement with emoticons
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Minor changes:
· Added a rake task to show outdated translations
· Added a configuration option for specifying whether a meta info value should be escaped
Bug fixes:
· All error messages now display useful path names (reported by Eric Sunshine)
· Fixed another CSS bug with sub directories in style bundle ‘andreas07’ (reported by Thomas Deselaers)
· Fixed problem with unintentionally modified link meta information that lead to errors
· Commands are now correctly shown when running webgen --help
· Fixed a problem where an incorrect path was shown in error messages
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