What I was mainly using webby for was for prototyping site ui ideas. I found an awesome replacement for that here: http://github.com/jlong/serve
I do use autobuild - thank you so much! :)
On 14 Jun 2010 20:23, "Robert Wahler" <robert...@gmail.com> wrote:
You will also need my fork of directory_watcher if you use the
autobuild functionality.
http://github.com/robertwahler/directory_watcher
On Jun 14, 11:45 am, aimee daniells <aimeedanie...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Oooh, thank you Robert! Good work! :)
>
> On 13 June 2010 18:13, Robert Wahler <robertwah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This fork works under R...
> On Jun 11, 4:52 pm, Kyle Cordes <kyle.cor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is Webby still alive? Or, if people have drifted off towards
>> alternative static-web-site-builder tools, which one(s) are most
>> comparable?
>
> Kyle,
> it seems that while Webby is hardly dead (there are still people
> using it to update their sites), there doesn't seem to be much of
> an active community. As a result, chatter, new ideas and fresh
> content is tailing off.
>
> Compare with Jekyll, which is another site generator with has
> less features. Jekyll's popularity went skyrocketing when it got
> integrated with GitHub.
>
> Whereas Webby is practically drowning in features yet its less
> popular and this group is very quiet. In fact its an apt metaphor:
> there are so many features and different ways of doing things
> in Webby, many quite powerful, yet a lack of solid information
> in using it well.
>
Well said. Richard, you've hit upon my own frustrations with Webby. It grew too complex, aping too many features of Rails.
> Its possible that static site generators is a niche tool space,
> where power and features are not the biggest draw.
>
Definitely a niché tool space. However, generators are everywhere. Rails templates when starting a new site; hoe and its related tool "sow" for creating new gems; sproutcore has templates, and it unifies and minifies javascript and CSS.
Lot's of applications, but they all have different little tricks they need to pull off.
> To answer your question though, I haven't used anything that
> is comparable to webby, though Jekyll is popular and may have
> an active community that could answer your question better.
>
I've not used Jekyl, but it does seem pretty popular. There is also webgen and nanoc.
Webby is not quite dead ... just lying dormant for a bit.
Blessings,
TwP
Good to hear that. My own use of webby (documenting a programming
framework that rdoc isn't suited for) is also a bit dormant at the
moment. The recent activity on kramdown is exciting, however...