webgen
webgen is a fast, powerful and extensible static website generator (by gettalong)
High Voltage
Easily include static pages in your Rails app. (by thoughtbot)
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| webgen | High Voltage | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | |
| 112 | 3,164 | |
| - | 0.2% | |
| 4.5 | 7.5 | |
| 4 months ago | 18 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
webgen
Posts with mentions or reviews of webgen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-04.
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What do you use ruby for?
I'm using webgen - my own tool - for this. It's the only one I know of that can incorporate the API documentation into the website and, naturally, I'm most familiar with it :)
High Voltage
Posts with mentions or reviews of High Voltage.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-14.
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Rails with Middleman for static content?
If you only need some static pages in your Rails app, I think you can use something simple like: https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage.
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How to integrate a static website to Rails app
Also not quite what you're lookin' for but throwing it out there anyway: https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage
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Application Search Feature more that ActiveRecord;
I've always used high voltage for static files. You can configure it to use top-level routes. It isn't a problem. Requests for assets don't even hit the Rails router.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing webgen and High Voltage you can also consider the following projects:
Jekyll - :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
Nanoc - A powerful web publishing system
Middleman - Hand-crafted frontend development
Awesome Jekyll - A collection of awesome Jekyll goodies (tools, templates, plugins, guides, etc.)
Octopress - Octopress 3.0 – Jekyll's Ferrari
Bridgetown - A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
Photish - Fast, simple, configurable photo portfolio website generator