From: tim.pease@...
Date: 2008-02-29T14:12:49+09:00
Subject: [ANN] webby 0.8.0

Webby version 0.8.0 (Apocalypse Cow)
    by Tim Pease
    http://webby.rubyforge.org/
    (the "Apocalypse Cow" release)

== DESCRIPTION

Webby is a super fantastic little website management system. It would be
called a _content management system_ if it were a bigger kid. But, it's
just a runt with a special knack for transforming text. And that's really
all it does - manages the legwork of turning text into something else, an
*ASCII Alchemist* if you will.

== IMPORTANT CHANGES

The Graphviz and CodeRay filters have been removed, and the
functionality those filters provide have been converted into Ruby
methods available via ERB. This will require a code change for any
page that uses one of those filters.

  <coderay lang="ruby">
  def some_method()
    nil
  end
  </code>

Will need to change to:

  <% coderay(:lang => 'ruby') do %>
  def some_method()
    nil
  end
  <% end %>

Similar changes will need to be made for graphviz blocks (which, I
assume, are much less used by the general public). The reason for this
change, simply put, is speed. Providing CodeRay and Graphviz functionality
via ERB methods reduces the number of times the page must be parsed.

Here is a snippet of Ruby code that will transform a file:
http://pastie.caboo.se/153245

== CHANGES

* 3 major enhancements
  - Added support for partials
  - Refactored the coderay and graphviz filters into helper methods
    accessible from ERB
  - Added support for embedding LaTeX mathematical equations
* 3 minor enhancements
  - Added a template file for creating Atom feeds
  - The SITE configuration is available in pages and layouts as
    the @config variable
  - Can specify the port the Heel webserver starts on using the
    SITE.heel_port option in the Rakefile
* 2 bug fixes
  - When creating pages in directory mode the full page path was
    not being created
  - Read only files were being created in the output folder
    preventing them from being overwritten if changed

You'll need to update the rake tasks for any Webby sites you have
created:

  webby -u site_directory

== FUN FACT

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

== POST SCRIPT

Blessings,
TwP