# Rweb 0.1.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rweb-0-1-0/111289>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 5, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rweb-0-1-0/111289 "2007-08-05T01:36:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Michael_TSRichter)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rweb-0-1-0/111289/1 "2007-08-05T01:36:12Z")

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RWEB is a literate programming tool for Ruby patterned after Donald  
Knuth’s WEB system. It will, eventually, feature:

```
  * self-tangling executable scripts
  * an external, manual tangling utility
  * an external, manual weaving utility with multiple back-end
    formats supported

```

Version 0.1.0 of RWEB has all three of these, but only one  
back-end–plain text–is currently provided. The next release will add  
XHTML support to the back-end and future releases past that will add  
other formats and the ability to easily plug in formats not natively  
supported.

The current status of the code is fluid. The core syntax is in place  
and unlikely to change. The tangling code is in place and unlikely to  
change much. The weaving code is going to change to support plug-ins.  
Testing is sporadic at best but will be improved through test cases with  
each version. Documentation is in place and reasonably complete  
([http://rubylit.rubyforge.org](http://rubylit.rubyforge.org)) at the library level, but utilities are  
currently undocumented.

I’d appreciate any feedback on the library and utility suite as things  
stand now.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Michael_TSRichter)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rweb-0-1-0/111289/2 "2007-08-05T01:58:12Z")

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Michael T. Richter wrote:

> back-end–plain text–is currently provided. The next release will add  
> currently undocumented.
> 
> I’d appreciate any feedback on the library and utility suite as things  
> stand now.

1. Are you using “Web” itself, “noweb”, something else, neither, etc.?
2. Have you looked at the way the R language does it? If not, check out  
[http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html](http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html) and  
[http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/Sweave-manual-20060104.pdf](http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/Sweave-manual-20060104.pdf)

I’m extremely interested in Literate Ruby (and other langauge)  
programming … I’m planning to check your code out this weekend.  
Thanks!!

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**Author:** ![Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Michael_TSRichter)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 7:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rweb-0-1-0/111289/3 "2007-08-05T07:20:26Z")

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On Sun, 2007-05-08 at 08:57 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 1. Are you using “Web” itself, “noweb”, something else, neither, etc.?

RWEB is an all-Ruby package.

> 1. Have you looked at the way the R language does it?

Nope. Never had R cross my path yet. I’ll check it out. Thanks for  
the links.