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Technical Ramblings from Gregory Brown
Webby, I wish I knew you a week ago
Webby looks awesome. Taken straight(*) from its home page, its feature list includes:
- Multiple templating languages: ERB, Textile, Markdown, HAML, SASS
- Support for UltraViolet and CodeRay syntax highlighting
- Embeddable DOT scripts for Graphviz graphs
- LaTeX snippets for mathematical formulas
- Automatic clean up of generated content via Tidy
- Quick Generation: – only builds pages that have changed
- Easy deployment– it’s just HTML, no special server stuff required
- Happy rake tasks for deploying your website to a server
- Template based page generation for quicker blog posts and news items
It does everything Blaag can do and more without increasing the overhead, it seems. I first learned about Webby through a great post on Mike Clark’s blog. That reminds me, Mike Clark is always writing cool stuff, I should read his blog more often!
Still, I’m glad I wrote Blaag. There is something wonderful about knowing every nook and cranny of the software you are using. It’s also neat to have only the features you need to use almost all the time, and nothing more. However, if you like the static generation style and don’t want to roll your own, use Webby, not Blaag. :)
(*) I normalized the tone of the feature list, as the original disturbed the grammar Nazi in me
Written by Gregory Brown on 2008.08.11 at 20:18 | Responses