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Message from discussion Generating static pages from database?
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Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 07:44:22 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: Generating static pages from database?
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Hi,

I meant, how would you create the actual pages?
Just run a script that outputs rows as files into pages/, or is there
a better way?

On 4 May, 16:15, Joshaven Potter <yourt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure its possible.
> You can use a ruby module to connect to your database...http://www.kitebi=
rd.com/articles/ruby-mysql.html
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> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM, sol <ch.bl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hey,
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> > I used staticmatic a long time ago, so I'm not sure about it's
> > (current) features...
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> > I need to create static html sites (around 200 000) from a database,
> > and I would like to use ruby for this - so staticmatic was the first
> > thing I thought about since I need a template system to easily change
> > and regenerate everything ... but I remember it needed files
> > describing the pages...
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> > Is this possible with staticmatic or does anyone have suggestions how
> > to do this?
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> > Thank you in advance,
> > Christoph
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> --
> Sincerely,
> Joshaven Potter
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