# Webby

Ruby static website generator that combines page contents with layouts to produce HTML.


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

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/TwP/webby

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: Tim Pease
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2008
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

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

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: erb, textile, markdown, haml, sass
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static, local
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: gem install

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2009-07-25

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 265
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 7
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 24
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- status: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/README.rdoc (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/TwP/webby (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/webby.gemspec (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/TwP/webby (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/README.rdoc (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/webby.gemspec (read 2026-10-23)
- templating: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/README.rdoc (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/README.rdoc (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/webby.gemspec (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/README.rdoc (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/README.rdoc (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/README.rdoc (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/README.rdoc (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/TwP/webby/git/refs/tags/webby-0.7.1 (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/TwP/webby/git/refs/tags/webby-0.9.4 (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/webby.json (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/TwP/webby (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/TwP/webby/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- contentStore: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TwP/webby/master/README.rdoc (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/webby (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Webby is a Ruby tool that combines the contents of each page with a shared layout, such as the header, navigation and footer, to produce HTML files. Its autobuild mode regenerates pages as they change and serves the output through WEBrick, the web server bundled with Ruby, for local preview. The generated files are plain HTML, so the live site needs no server-side code and any web space can host it.

## Worth knowing

The README says Webby is no longer under active development and points readers to nanoc, a similar tool. The project's RubyForge homepage no longer answers, so the README and the gem are the only readable sources.

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