# Webgen 0.5.7 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-7-released/161579>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 27, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-7-released/161579 "2009-02-27T16:12:42Z")\
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**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:** [February 27, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-7-released/161579/1 "2009-02-27T16:12:42Z")

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## Hey everybody!

webgen 0.5.7 has just been released! If you don’t know what webgen is,  
read the “What’s webgen?” section down below.

This announcement is also available at  
[http://webgen.rubyforge.org/news/release\_0\_5\_7.html](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/news/release_0_5_7.html)

Although this is a just a minor interim release, the 0.5.x series is  
declared stable with this release and should be used instead of the old  
stable 0.4.x series! The one exception is when you rely on features of  
the 0.4.x series that have not been ported to 0.5.x yet.

Aside from this this release brings some new features, various issues  
were fixed and the homepage was updated sothat the current version and  
release date are visible from the start page.

## Changes

- Major enhancements:

- Minor enhancements:

- Bug fixes:

## What’s webgen?

webgen is a tool to generate static websites by combining content  
with 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. You can use a variety of markup languages like Textile or  
Markdown or Haml to define your content and you can add dynamic parts  
via ERB or by using webgen tags. This allows the automatic generation  
of menus, breadcrumb trails and much more!

## Installation

gem install webgen

## Usage

See [http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/)

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**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:** [February 27, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-7-released/161579/2 "2009-02-27T22:45:56Z")

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Thomas L. schrieb:

> ## Hey everybody!
> 
> webgen 0.5.7 has just been released! If you don’t know what webgen is,

[…]

> ## Installation
> 
> gem install webgen

just wanted to update my webgen install on opensuse 11 /  
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i586-linux] /  
gem 0.9.2 =

gem update webgen  
Updating installed gems…  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
Attempting remote update of webgen

Thanks for choosing webgen! Here are some places to get you started:

- The webgen User Documentation at  
[http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/index.html](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/index.html)
- The mailing list archive at  
[http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/webgen-users/](http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/webgen-users/)

Have a look at [http://webgen.rubyforge.org/news/index.html](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/news/index.html) for a list  
of changes!

Have fun!

Successfully installed webgen-0.5.6  
Installing ri documentation for webgen-0.5.6…  
Installing RDoc documentation for webgen-0.5.6…  
Gems: [webgen] updated

but got webgen-0.5.6 only ?!

Regards, Gilbert

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**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:** [February 28, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-7-released/161579/3 "2009-02-28T18:27:13Z")

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On Feb 27, 10:44 pm, Gilbert R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> just wanted to update mywebgeninstall on opensuse 11 /  
> ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i586-linux] /  
> gem 0.9.2 =

Try updating rubygems to the at least version 1.3.0 - I have already  
installed webgen via rubygems on several computers.

Regards,  
Thomas

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**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:** [March 1, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-7-released/161579/4 "2009-03-01T18:04:03Z")

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Thomas schrieb:

> Try updating rubygems to the at least version 1.3.0 - I have already  
> installed webgen via rubygems on several computers.

OK, after updating rubygems to 1.3.1 via =  
gem update --system  
Updating RubyGems…  
…  
and  
gem update webgen

i finally got =  
Successfully installed webgen-0.5.7  
Gems updated: webgen

🙂

Regards, Gilbert