I want to use org-mode files in one of the many Ruby static website generation tools (Webby, Webgen, Jekyll, etc.). Thus, I needed a way to extract simple HTML from an org-mode file *without* relying on emacs. Thus, org-ruby was born. It's not nearly as full featured as the emacs-based HTML export, but at the moment I am successfully using org-mode files as content for Webby static websites. Full source is here: http://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby Or you can just grab the gem and go: sudo gem install org-ruby