Webby as a powerful wiki-like notebook

Introduction

I have often look at wikis, trying to find a nice tool for taking my notes and formating them. Have many ideas in my head, like to write them down and visualize it. Wiki is great for that but always a bit heavy to “deploy”.

Continuesly seeking for new ruby things, I heard about Webby, a lightweight web publishing system. Simply taking your pages (textile, html, erb, aso…) and generate a static website. Run Heel on it and you will have a perfect light but very powerful wiki-like web site. Extension are perfect for programming notes including graphiz and syntax highlighting.

Setup your notebook

sudo gem install webby

This will install several gems, included heel.

more coming…