Ross Bamford
2005-Dec-13 14:04 UTC
[webgen-users] Features for next webgen release [comp.lang.ruby]
Hi, Thought I''d reply on the Webgen list, hope that''s okay. I''m gradually putting together my personal website with Webgen when I get time to do it properly (not got much beyond planning yet though) but I did have a couple of things on my wish-list already ;) On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:50:08 -0000, Thomas Leitner <thomas_leitner at gmx.at> wrote [in comp.lang.ruby]:> I''m currently gathering ideas for new features for the next big webgen > release (0.4.0). Some of the planned features are: > > * RSS feed generation (proposed by Friz Heinrichmeyer)That would be very nice - I''m planning a blog-ish section and a photo album that I''d like to generate RSS from :)> * blog module (proposed by Fritz Heinrichmeyer)(Maybe this overlaps with what I propose below? I''d love to know more about it).> * template inheritance (page uses template 1 which uses template 2...)Is this nested layout, i.e. I could have a layout with three columns, and in column 2 is another laid-out page (say, three rows), and in the middle of that is the actual requested page? If so, then that would be really useful.> * multiple file handler for one source fileI''m not sure if I''ve just not found the right way to do this yet, but I''d like to be able to generate multiple views from a page. I don''t really know how it could work, but it would be nice to be able to automate having certain pages output to multiple formats, maybe even including PDF.> * GUI application for managing a Web siteI wonder if, instead of building a GUI application, you could instead find some way to integrate with the blog packages already out there? I don''t know a lot about the technologies involved, but maybe you could implement something like the metaweblog API (on webrick or something). I''ve always used BloGTK for my blogs, and I''m hoping to replace my (dumped) blogs with a small blog-like section on the site - it would be really cool if I could use my blog package like that. I appreciate it may seem overkill to implement a whole weblog API locally for this, but I don''t know - something that''s worth considering maybe...> * XML::Builder intergration for generating HTML output >We are considering similar for Rote (but probably for plain XML mainly), as well as a similar CSS thing[1]. Maybe it could be useful in webgen...? Anyway, just some ideas... :) Cheers, Ross (p.s. Good work on Webgen - it''s excellent, so thanks :)) [1] http://lunchroom.lunchboxsoftware.com/articles/2005/08/19/rcss-anyone -- Ross Bamford - rosco at roscopeco.co.uk