# Webgen 0.5.9 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-9-released/172703>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 26, 2009, 7:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-9-released/172703 "2009-07-26T07:38:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 7:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-9-released/172703/1 "2009-07-26T07:38:52Z")

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## Hey everybody!

webgen 0.5.9 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\_9.html](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/news/release_0_5_9.html)

This release does not bring many new and cool features (some naturally  
made it into this release 😉 but it is another step to bringing more  
advanced functionality like image gallery and blog support to webgen.  
Since gallery and blog template files will rely heavily on embedded  
Ruby scripts via erb, haml and thelike, the functionality of the  
context object has been expanded to allow the programmatic inclusion of  
tags and the rendering of blocks.

Another important change in this release is that the naming convention  
for paths has been made stricter sothat it is easier to derive the  
(a)(l)cn from a source path.

Also note that there have been some incompatible API changes!

## Changes

- Major enhancements:

- Minor enhancements:

- Bug fixes:

- Incompatible API changes:

- 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/)