https://github.com/gettalong/webgen

webgen is a fast, powerful and extensible static website generator
https://github.com/gettalong/webgen

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webgen is a fast, powerful and extensible static website generator

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gettalong/webgen
• Owner: gettalong
• License: other
• Created: 2008-07-07T06:27:52.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-01T15:44:30.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-30T23:48:53.372Z (21 days ago)
• Topics: ruby, static-site-generator, static-website-generation, webgen
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://webgen.gettalong.org
• Size: 10.4 MB
• Stars: 112
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 20
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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README

        
# webgen - static website generation made easy

webgen is used for generating static websites from templates and content

files (which can be written in any markup language). It can generate

dynamic content like menus on the fly and comes with many powerful

extensions.

Sponsors:

* **GROSSWEBER** provides software

  development consulting and training services.

## Contact & Help

The author of webgen is Thomas Leitner -- he is reachable at .

You can discuss webgen or find help on the [webgen-users Google group].

Or you can join the IRC channel [#webgen] on Freenode.

[webgen-users Google group]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/webgen-users

[#webgen]: irc://chat.freenode.net/#webgen

## Description

webgen is a free (GPL-licensed) command line application for generating

static websites. It combines content with template files to generate

HTML files. This allows one to separate the content from the layout and

reuse the layout for many content files.

Apart from this basic functionality, webgen offers many features that

makes authoring websites easier:

* Multiple markup languages to choose from for writing HTML and CSS

  files (Markdown, Textile, RDoc, Haml, Sass, ...)

* Automatic generation of menus, breadcrumb trails, ... and more!

* Partial website regeneration (only modified items get re-generated)

  which reduces website generation time enormously

* Self-contained website (all generated links are relative, so one can

  view the website *without a web server*)

* Easily extendable (all major components can be extended with new

  functionality or existing functionality can be replaced)

* No need to know the Ruby language for basic websites

The main documentation lives at .

## Installation

webgen is written in Ruby, so you need the Ruby interpreter on your

system. You can get it from http://ruby-lang.org/. See

 for more information.

You can install webgen via Rubygems:

    $ gem install webgen

Or via the `setup.rb` method if you have downloaded a tarball or zip file:

    $ ruby setup.rb config

    $ ruby setup.rb setup

    $ ruby setup.rb install

## License

GPLv3 - see the **COPYING** file.