# Webgen 0.5.8 released

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**Created:** [May 7, 2009, 11:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-8-released/167389 "2009-05-07T11:43:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 11:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-8-released/167389/1 "2009-05-07T11:43:58Z")

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## Hey everybody!

webgen 0.5.8 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\_8.html](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/news/release_0_5_8.html)

This release brings some very useful new features and paves the way for  
more new features in the next versions!

The most notable change is that there is no distinction between website  
styles and templates anymore - both are called bundles now or more  
specifically, for example, style bundles. Since both were basically the  
same but provided different kinds of content I thought that it would be  
useful to drop the distinction.

This also lead to changes in the CLI command `create` which can now  
take any number of website bundles from which the new website will be  
created. Also, the `create` command got a new companion, the `apply`  
command which can be used to apply website bundles to an already  
existing website.

But that’s not all regarding website bundles: after the addition of a  
new source class for handling local or remote, possibily gzipped, tar  
archives, it is now very easy to provide style bundles or even complete  
websites on websites. For example, if a user develops a new website  
style bundle and puts it on his website, anyone can use it by just using

```
webgen create -b default -b 

```

[http://www.example.com/webgen/ubercool-style.tar.gz](http://www.example.com/webgen/ubercool-style.tar.gz) new\_site

As usual, some minor enhancements, many bug fixes and many  
documentation updates made it into this release! See the changes  
section for a complete list of changes and also note that some parts of  
the API got deprecated!

## Changes

- Major enhancements:

- Minor enhancements:

- Bug fixes:

- Documentation:

- Deprecation notes:

## 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/)