# Webgen 0.4.0 released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 6, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-4-0-released/81275 "2007-01-06T19:30:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tlockney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@tlockney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tlockney)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-4-0-released/81275/1 "2007-01-06T19:30:56Z")
Hey all, finally a new webgen release 🙂 More information and install instructions below! Thanks for all the help and feedback! Bye, Thomas * * * # About webgen is used to generate web pages from page and template files. You create one or more template files in which you define the layout of your page and where the content should go. After that you create page files in which you only define the content. When webgen is run it combines the template with each of the page files and generates the HTML output files. During this process special tags are substituted so that, for example, a menu is generated. More information on webgen can be found on its homepage: [http://webgen.rubyforge.org](http://webgen.rubyforge.org) # Major changes - New website layout 😉 - webgen now includes many predefined website styles - Template files can now be nested! - New content converter plugin (ContentConverter/XmlBuilder) - New plugin for syntax highlighting (Misc/SyntaxHighlighter) - Many changes to the core - “Static” menus now available - Many tests have been added. - More complete documentation - Fixed many bugs - Many, many other changes Thanks for all the feedback!!! # Download & Installation Homepage: [http://webgen.rubyforge.org](http://webgen.rubyforge.org) Download: [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=296](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=296) ## Dependencies - cmdparse [1](http://cmdparse.rubyforge.org) version 2.0.0 or higher All the following libraries are optional: - RedCloth [2](http://redcloth.rubyforge.org) version 2.0.10 or higher if you want Textile support - BlueCloth [3](http://www.deveiate.org) version 1.0.0 or higher if you want Markdown support - RMagick [4](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org) version 1.7.1 or higher if you want automatic thumbnail creation for image galleries - builder [5](http://builder.rubyforge.org) version 2.0.0 or higher if you want programatic HTML/XMLfile generation - exifr [6](http://exifr.rubyforge.org) version 0.9.4 or higher if you want to be able to have EXIF information available for image galleries - coderay [7](http://coderay.rubychan.de) version 0.7.4.215 or higher if you want syntax highlighting to be available for certain plugins All the libraries can be installed via Rubygems (which is recommend). ## Installation The easiest way to install webgen is via Rubygems $ gem install webgen However, you can also use the included setup.rb installation method: $ ruby setup.rb config $ ruby setup.rb setup $ ruby setup.rb install Or all commands together via $ rake install The above listed methods also work when installing on Windows. ---
**Author:** ![tlockney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@tlockney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tlockney)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-4-0-released/81275/2 "2007-01-07T15:10:34Z")
Thomas L. ha scritto: > finally a new webgen release 🙂 More information and install > instructions below! > > Thanks for all the help and feedback! I’m sorry if this question has been posted already, I’ve had an extensive look to the website but apparently you don’t provide any rails integration facility. I know Rails is mainly targetted at dynamic sites, but it would be nice to have webgen being able to generate .rhtml files for use with rails. Any chance this is going to happen? > Bye, Bye, > Thomas Andrew ---
**Author:** ![tlockney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@tlockney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tlockney)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-4-0-released/81275/3 "2007-01-19T16:30:18Z")
> I’m sorry if this question has been posted already, I’ve had an > extensive look to the website but apparently you don’t provide any > rails integration facility. I know Rails is mainly targetted at > dynamic sites, but it would be nice to have webgen being able to > generate .rhtml files for use with rails. > > Any chance this is going to happen? I do not really know what the advantage of this would be! Which .rhtml files should webgen generate, more specifically, what should be the content of the .rhtml files? Could you state a use case for using webgen in conjunction with Rails? I would be willing to do something like this if you provide some more information about what the result should be. Regards, Thomas