> I am fascinated by the approach of tools like Iowa or Walrus, and how
> clean they seem to make both the code and the development, yet they
> seem to only target dynamic content.  Is there any templating system
> written in Ruby that would be useful in building static sites?


Have you looked at ruby-tmpl?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ruby-tmpl/

I use it on www.rubyxml.com

James



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