Ruby Webby

Installation

• Install oniguruma development package

Debian: apt-get -y install libonig-dev

Fedora: yum -y install oniguruma-devel

• As root run the following command:

gem install webby haml coderay ultraviolet RedCloth rdiscount bones cucumber

The above line will build and install the proper gems in order to setup webby gem.

How to create a webby blog site

1. Check the available templates

# webby-gen -t

Available Templates
  blog, presentation, tumblog, website

• Create the blog site called myblog

# mkdir -p /var/rails
# cd /var/rails
# webby-gen blog myblog

• Edit the necessary files on content folder
• Edit the Sitefile in order to deploy application to the server location
• Build and deploy

# webby build
# webby deploy:ssh

Note that ssh could be replaced by rsync

Webby tasks

Some common tasks on webby are:

webby autobuild          # Continuously build the website
webby blog:post          # Create a new blog post
webby build              # Build the website
webby clobber            # Delete the website
webby create:page        # Create a new page
webby create:partial     # Create a new partial
webby create:atom_feed   # Create a new atom_feed
webby deploy             # deploy the site to the webserver
webby deploy:rsync       # Deploy to the server using rsync
webby deploy:ssh         # Deploy to the server using ssh
webby rebuild            # Rebuild the website
webby validate           # Alias to validate:internal 
webby validate:external  # Validate hyperlinks (include external sites)
webby validate:internal  # Validate hyperlinks (exclude external sites)