webgen
webgen is a fast, powerful and extensible static website generator (by gettalong)
Octopress
Octopress 3.0 – Jekyll's Ferrari (by octopress)
| webgen | Octopress | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 112 | 1,749 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 4.5 | 0.0 | |
| 11 months ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 or later | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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 :)
Octopress
Posts with mentions or reviews of Octopress.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-17.
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How I host Elm web applications with GitHub Pages
Git for Static Sites - Interestingly Kris Jenkins blogged about a similar approach back in 2016. I actually came to these ideas, independently of Kris' post, through a Ruby project called Octopress.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing webgen and Octopress you can also consider the following projects:
Jekyll - :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
Middleman - Hand-crafted frontend development
Nanoc - A powerful web publishing system
Awesome Jekyll - A collection of awesome Jekyll goodies (tools, templates, plugins, guides, etc.)
High Voltage - Easily include static pages in your Rails app.
Photish - Fast, simple, configurable photo portfolio website generator
Bridgetown - A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby