From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2002-06-08T01:36:27+09:00
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: PageTemplate 0.3.1

Brian Wisti wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I finally had enough time away from job stuff to add things to 
> PageTemplate (seems I'm always griping about too much or not enough 
> work).  The visible changes are small, but the supporting framework has 
> undergone some major changes to simplify testing and keep my poor little 
> brain from melting when I look at the code.
> 
> I think now it's time to put together a nice assortment of sample apps 
> and see how well this thing performs in the real world.
> 
> Here's the download page:
>     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53220
> 
> .. and here's the documentation page:
>     http://www.coolnamehere.com/geekery/ruby/pagetemplate/
> 
> Okay, folks. Have fun with it!
> 
> Brian Wisti
> 
> CHANGES FROM 0.2.0
> ------------
> - It works under ruby 1.6 now!
> - Experimental support for caching template information to disk.
> 
> PageTemplate.rb
> ============
> 
> Use PageTemplate.rb to create output based on template pages and the 
> code of your program.  This package is inspired by Sam Tregar's  
> HTML::Template package for Perl.  Its main intent is to separate design 
> and code for CGI programs, but it could be useful in other contexts as 
> well (Ex: site generation packages).
> 
> PageTemplate.rb is distributed under the MIT License.
> 
> As a side note: if you are using PageTemplate in your projects, or add 
> features to your copy, I'd love to hear about it.  Brian Wisti 
> (brian@coolnamehere.com)
> http://www.coolnamehere.com/geekery/ruby/pagetemplate/
> 
> Features
> --------
> 
> * Variable substitution
> * If and If/Else structures
> * Loops and Loop/Else structures
> * Customizable Syntax
> * Caching template information for improved performance


Awesome Brian, love this PageTemplate library.  =)  I'm making massive 
use of it across like 10 different web sites right now.

	Sean