Webby is no longer under active development. If you would like to take over the project, please contact me via the GitHub message and notification system.

For similar functionality, please look into the nanoc project of Denis Defreyne.

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• email tim dot pease at gmail dot com

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.

Install Webby and try it out!

• 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

But Wait! There’s More!

Webby has a great autobuild feature that continuously generates HTML whenever the pages or layouts change. The HTML is served up via WebBrick, a simple webserver that comes with Ruby. Whenever you change a page, you can immediately see those changes without having to run any commands.

$ webby autobuild
[10:21:26]  INFO: starting autobuild (Ctrl-C to stop)
[10:21:26]  INFO: creating output/index.html
[10:22:57]  INFO: creating output/index.html

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.

gem install webby

$ webby-gen website my_site
creating my_site

$ cd my_site

$ webby create:page 'new page'
creating content/new-page.txt

$ webby create:page 'another/new page'
creating content/another/new-page.txt

$ webby autobuild
[10:21:26]  INFO: starting autobuild (Ctrl-C to stop)
[10:21:26]  INFO: creating output/index.html
[10:21:26]  INFO: creating output/new-page.html
[10:21:26]  INFO: creating output/another/new-page.html

• directory_watcher

• hpricot

• logging

• rake

• rspec

• bones

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