# Rote - Textual templating for website and docs **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 25, 2005, 10:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rote-textual-templating-for-website-and-docs/48813 "2005-11-25T10:55:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rosco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@rosco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rosco)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 10:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rote-textual-templating-for-website-and-docs/48813/1 "2005-11-25T10:55:09Z")
I’d like to take a moment to introduce Rote, a static page rendering and layout tool for Ruby, that simply provides an easy-to-use templating solution for your static website, software documentation, blog, or whatever. Rote provides a convenient commandline build for your page-based projects, and can be integrated directly into your own Rake builds for mixed projects and documentation sets. - Simple set-up based on page templates and sections. - ERB, Textile, and Markdown supported out of the box (RedCloth). - Multiple configurable layouts apply boilerplate to your pages. - â??Scopedâ?? Ruby code support allows fine-grained control of data available across all documentation, a subset, or individual pages. - Can be used standalone (from the command-line) or from within Rake as a custom task library. - Supports any (text-based) format, while providing utilities and helpers for common formats (HTML at present). I’ve been working on Rote for a little while, and have just gotten to a point where I think a 0.1.0 release is justified. I’m especially interested in any ideas for features or enhancements that would be useful. So now theres no excuse for skipping out on the documentation 😉 - come on over and check it out at [http://rote.rubyforge.org/](http://rote.rubyforge.org/) . Thanks for your time! (P.s. I’m still a relative Nuby, so I’d really appreciate any pointers or suggestions on what I’m doing wrong and how I might fix it. :))