Dokkit 0.4.0 released!

Ruby
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Hi Folks,

version 0.4.0 of dokkit has been released!

1 Changes from version 0.3.0

  • improved support for partials and nested layouts
  • added cache support
  • easy environment setup with the introduction of a configuration
    container
  • a lot of code refactoring and bug fixes

2 What’s dokkit?

dokkit is a document generator written in ruby that is suitable for
static websites generation too.

dokkit uses formatters like deplate[1] and maruku[2] to generate
documents in a large variety of output formats.

dokkit’s features are:

  • a smart building system based on rake[3]
  • a templating system based on ERB[4]
  • a flexible configuration system based on YAML[5] that supports
    shared configuration files and ‘in header’ configuration
  • an extensible formatting system that uses deplate and maruku as
    built-in filters
  • convention over configuration: for example, you don’t need to give
    the layout name to use if a layout with the same name of the
    processed document is found in doc/layouts folder
  • support for nested layouts
  • support for partials
  • support for caching

With dokkit you can:

  • generate static websites
  • generate many types of documents in many formats (html, tex, plain
    text, etc.)
  • write your documents using a simple wiki syntax and get high
    quality latex output
  • generate different output formats from the same source document
  • use models to quickly generate the documents you want (static
    websites, reports, howtos, guides, presentations, etc.)
  • simply derive new documentation models from the existing ones
  • simply modify existing models to fit your needs

dokkit aims to be modular and extensible: you can add new formatters and
helpers and easily extend document functionalities.

See dokkit website[6] for further informations and tutorials.

3 Installation

From rubygems:

sudo gem install dokkit

From subversion repository:

svn co http://dokkit.rubyforge.org/svn/dokkit-core/trunk/

4 Usage

dokkit simple
cd simple/
rake

[1] http://deplate.sf.net/
[2] http://maruku.rubyforge.org/
[3] http://rake.rubyforge.org/
[4] http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/erb/rdoc/
[5] http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/
[6] http://dokkit.rubyforge.org/

This announce has been generate with dokkit on Tue Jul 22 07:46:33 +0000
2008