# Webby 0.6.0 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webby-0-6-0-released/122135>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 4, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webby-0-6-0-released/122135 "2007-12-04T21:18:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timperrett)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webby-0-6-0-released/122135/1 "2007-12-04T21:18:30Z")

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Webby is a super fantastic little website management system. It would  
be called a content management system if it were a bigger kid. But,  
it’s just a runt with a special knack for transforming text. And  
that’s really all it does – manages the legwork of turning text into  
something else, an ASCII Alchemist if you will.

Webby works by combining the contents of a page with a layout to  
produce HTML. The layout contains everything common to all the pages –  
HTML headers, navigation menu, footer, etc. – and the page contains  
just the information for that page. You can use your favorite markup  
language to write your pages; Webby supports quite a few.

Install Webby and try it out!

$ sudo gem install webby

[http://webby.rubyforge.org](http://webby.rubyforge.org)

= RELEASE NOTES =

New in this version

- tidy support
- graphviz support
- simplified coderay usage when used within a textile page
- streamlined defaults handling

== TIDY SUPPORT ==

You can now format and check your generated content using Tidy. This  
is done by specifying Tidy as the final filter in the top-level layout  
(or layouts) for you site. The following example shows how to do this  
using the default layout found in the layouts directory.

Example:

* * *

extension: html  
filter:

- erb
- tidy

* * *
 ... \<%= @content %\>

Obviously some markup has been left out of that example, but you get  
the idea. Options can be passed to Tidy by setting them in the site  
Rakefile.

SITE.tidy\_options = “-indent -wrap 80”

Tidy needs to be installed on your system for this to work.

== GRAPHVIZ SUPPORT ==

You can now embed DOT scripts directly into a page, and Webby will  
generate the image file and insert an ![]() tag into the HTML  
output. If the DOT script contains URL or href references, a  
corresponding image map will be generated such that the image in the  
webpage is clickable.

Example:

* * *

title: Visual Hello World  
filter:

- graphviz
- textile

* * *

h2. Visual Hello World

digraph G { Hello [URL="http://www.ruby-lang.org"] World [URL="http://www.rubyforge.org"] Hello -\> World }

Images can be generated using dot, neato, twopi, circo, fdp. Just  
specify which one you want to use as \<graphviz cmd=“neato” …\>

Graphviz must be installed on your machine for this to work.

== CODERAY ==

When coderay is used within a textile page, the coderay block needed  
to be surrounded by tags. This is no longer  
the case, and the coderay block can exist all by itself.

Example:

* * *

title: Code Sample  
filter:

- coderay
- textile

* * *

h2. Ruby Code Sample

This is the infamous “returning” method.

class Object def returning( obj ) yield obj return obj end end

== ERRATA ==

With this update, you need to update the rake tasks and setup code in  
any of your webby project folders. Simply type the following …

$ webby -u my/webby/project/folder

Blessings,  
TwP