# parklife

Ruby library that renders a Rack application, such as Rails or Sinatra, into a static HTML build.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/parklife/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://parklife.dev
- repository: https://github.com/benpickles/parklife
- docs: https://parklife.dev/cli

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Ben Pickles
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2023
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: ruby
- runtime: ruby
- runtimeMin: ruby 2.5
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static, local
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: Gemfile, then bundle install

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-08-19

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 308
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 5
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 1
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://parklife.dev/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/benpickles/parklife (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://parklife.dev/cli (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://parklife.dev/cli (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/benpickles/parklife (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://parklife.dev/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://parklife.dev/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/parklife.json (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/benpickles/parklife/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://parklife.dev/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://parklife.dev/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://github.com/benpickles/parklife/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://github.com/benpickles/parklife/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://github.com/benpickles/parklife/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/benpickles/parklife/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/benpickles/parklife/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/benpickles/parklife/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/benpickles/parklife (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/benpickles/parklife/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/parklife (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

parklife is a Ruby gem that renders a Rack application, such as one built with Rails or Sinatra, into a static build. It is added to the application's Gemfile, and the parklife build command crawls the application and writes the static files to a build directory. The build can be served by GitHub Pages, Netlify, S3, Vercel, or any other server.

## Worth knowing

The README says parklife does not handle assets such as images and CSS, which have to be generated and copied into the build directory separately.

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