Questions: 1. Will the current releases of webgen work with a site built with stable 0.4.7 ? 2. I have been manually installing ruby, Redcloth, cmdparse, and webgen from source. What is the advantage of using rubygems?
Hi Werner,> 1. Will the current releases of webgen work with a site built with > stable 0.4.7 ?No, a site built with webgen 0.4.7 needs to be updated to work with 0.5.x. Have a look at http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/upgrading.html for instructions!> 2. I have been manually installing ruby, Redcloth, cmdparse, and > webgen from source. What is the advantage of using rubygems?* You don''t need to know how to install a library/application. If it is available as a Rubygem you can just say `gem install LIB/APP` and you are done. * Dependencies are automatically installed when installing a library/application. For example, webgen 0.5.x depends on cmdparse, maruku, facets, rake, ramaze and launchy (the last two are only need for the webgui). * You can have more than one version of an application/library installed. This is very useful for webgen. If you have installed webgen 0.4.7 and 0.5.4 via Rubygems, you can say `webgen _0.5.4_ ARGS...` or `webgen _0.4.7_ ARGS...` to invoke either the 0.5.4 version or the 0.4.7 version. However, there is currently one caveat: Rubygems introduced support for development dependencies but this support is flawed. So if you install the latest version of webgen via Rubygems be sure to use `gem install --development webgen` so that webgen works (this workaround only works for if you have a compiler installed, so Linux, Mac OSX and Unix should be fine, Windows normally not). -- Thomas
Thank you for the information Thomas. Is blog support and automatic rss xml generation coming soon? Thomas Leitner wrote: Hi Werner, 1. Will the current releases of webgen work with a site built with stable 0.4.7 ? No, a site built with webgen 0.4.7 needs to be updated to work with 0.5.x. Have a look at http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/upgrading.html for instructions! 2. I have been manually installing ruby, Redcloth, cmdparse, and webgen from source. What is the advantage of using rubygems? * You don''t need to know how to install a library/application. If it is available as a Rubygem you can just say `gem install LIB/APP` and you are done. * Dependencies are automatically installed when installing a library/application. For example, webgen 0.5.x depends on cmdparse, maruku, facets, rake, ramaze and launchy (the last two are only need for the webgui). * You can have more than one version of an application/library installed. This is very useful for webgen. If you have installed webgen 0.4.7 and 0.5.4 via Rubygems, you can say `webgen _0.5.4_ ARGS...` or `webgen _0.4.7_ ARGS...` to invoke either the 0.5.4 version or the 0.4.7 version. However, there is currently one caveat: Rubygems introduced support for development dependencies but this support is flawed. So if you install the latest version of webgen via Rubygems be sure to use `gem install --development webgen` so that webgen works (this workaround only works for if you have a compiler installed, so Linux, Mac OSX and Unix should be fine, Windows normally not). -- Thomas _______________________________________________ webgen-users mailing list webgen-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/webgen-users _______________________________________________ webgen-users mailing list webgen-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/webgen-users
Am Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:29:06 -0400 schrieb Werner <ve3wsz at netscape.net>:> Thank you for the information Thomas. Is blog support and automatic > rss xml generation coming soon?RSS generation support is already supported by webgen. However, blog support which was scheduled for the end of September will take a little big longer due to real life (didn''t find enough time to work on webgen lately). -- Thomas