# \[ANN\] Gerbil 2.0.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-gerbil-2-0-0/128009>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 4, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-gerbil-2-0-0/128009 "2008-02-04T07:55:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snk)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-gerbil-2-0-0/128009/1 "2008-02-04T07:55:56Z")

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```
                   Gerbil

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Gerbil is an extensible document generator based on eRuby  
that outputs to any format you want: plain text, HTML,  
LaTeX, UNIX man page, your own custom format, and so on.

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         http://gerbil.rubyforge.org

```

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Version 2.0.0

Contents

• Thanks  
• Caution  
• Improvements  
• Repairs

This release fixes some bugs, improves the RDoc library,  
and adds nodes for customization of the default header and  
footer.

1 Thanks

• Zhang Chiyuan (pluskid) fixed the regexp placeholder  
bug described below.

2 Caution

• The lib/gerbil/rdoc.rb library has changed! Read it for  
details.

3 Improvements

• In the html format, added the following nodes which  
allow you customize the default header and footer  
whilst preserving the default content:  
□ header\_outside\_above – above the entire header  
block  
□ header\_inside\_above – above the default header  
content  
□ header\_inside\_below – below the default header  
content  
□ header\_outside\_below – below the entire header  
block  
□ footer\_outside\_above – above the entire footer  
block  
□ footer\_inside\_above – above the default footer  
content  
□ footer\_inside\_below – below the default footer  
content  
□ footer\_outside\_below – below the entire footer  
block

4 Repairs

• ”\0” and other regexp substitution placeholders in node  
content were being interpreted. In particular, any  
occurrences of ”\0” in a node’s content was replaced by  
a strange SHA1 digest! {pluskid}

• The lib/gerbil/rdoc.rb library did not extract method  
information recursively.

• In the html format, added a CSS margin above HTML  
tables because they were visually colliding with other  
elements above them.

• Fixed some Ruby code warnings in the html format.

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**Author:** ![snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snk)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-gerbil-2-0-0/128009/2 "2008-02-05T04:29:33Z")

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Cool!

2008/2/4, Suraj K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):