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From what I have just read about Webby, it seems like it does not support topics and categories like Jekyll does. However it does have a wide range of rake tas
by basil 18y ago
From what I have just read about Webby, it seems like it does not support topics and categories like Jekyll does. However it does have a wide range of rake tasks which do some things like offer a variety of deployment options, logging to growl, and validating links.
There are differences in the philosophies behind the 2 projects. They are both static site generators however Jekyll is more oriented for maintaining blog-style sites. Webby lacks the ability to organise content the way that Jekyll does.
Perhaps most importantly, Jekyll is now available as a free, hosted solution with GitHub - a great way of inviting the large community of developers active in that community to contribute to the project.
I am not saying one is better than the other. They seem to accomplish slightly different things although the method in which they go about it is somewhat similar.
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- 1gor 18y agoSadly, you have not read enough before making your conclusions. Webby shines with blogs, check http://www.locomotivation.com http://www.locomotivation.com to see an example. You can create a blog with two commands in webby: $ webby-gen blog "My Blog" ... $ webby blog:post "Nice weather today" [13:27:47] INFO: creating content/blog/2008/index.txt [13:27:47] INFO: creating content/blog/2008/12/index.txt [13:27:47] INFO: creating content/blog/2008/12/28/nice-weather-today.txt And it obviously does support categories/tags/article statuses etc. since you can give any property to your page.
- basil 18y agoWell if that's the case and if properties are available on a site-wide basis like Jekyll's topics and categories are, then yes - it certainly seems very capable and something I would like to have a crack at using.