# Webgen dependencies

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-dependencies/103313>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 4, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-dependencies/103313 "2007-05-04T02:35:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Alm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f0a364/32.png) [@David\_Alm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/David_Alm)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-dependencies/103313/1 "2007-05-04T02:35:24Z")

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Hello,

Today I installed Ruby 1.8.6, then webgen (via gem install).

The gem install did not seem to detect that it needed the redcloth gem,  
so I  
installed that.

But I still cannot get it to work (parse page files).

Any other gems it needs that are not in the one-click install?

Thanks,  
Dave

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**Author:** ![David\_Alm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f0a364/32.png) [@David\_Alm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/David_Alm)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-dependencies/103313/2 "2007-05-04T07:33:42Z")

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David Alm wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Today I installed Ruby 1.8.6, then webgen (via gem install).
> 
> The gem install did not seem to detect that it needed the redcloth gem, so I  
> installed that.

Actually redcloth is not needed, webgen works without redcloth. You just  
won’t have textile support.

> But I still cannot get it to work (parse page files).
> 
> Any other gems it needs that are not in the one-click install?

[http://webgen.rubyforge.org/download.html](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/download.html) states what optional packages  
it supports.

If you issue

webgen check libs

on the cmd-line you will see what libs webgen detected.

Stefan