It's possible to serve the generated site with maid, in case apache is not available:
cabal update cabal install maid yst create testsite cd testsite yst cd site maid now goto http://localhost:3000/ On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:05 AM, John MacFarlane<[email protected]> wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the release of yst, now available on HackageDB. > yst generates static websites from YAML or CSV data files and > StringTemplates. This approach combines the speed, security, and ease of > deployment of a static website with the flexibility and maintainability > of a dynamic site that separates presentation and data. > > The easiest way to get a feel for yst is to try it: > > cabal update > cabal install yst > yst create testsite > cd testsite > yst > > yst attempts to fill a niche between two kinds of site creation tools. > On the one hand you have simple static site generators like webgen, > webby, nanoc, and my old custom system using make and pandoc. On the > other hand, you have dynamic web frameworks like rails and django. > For my own smallish websites, I found that the dynamic frameworks were > overkill. Nobody but me was going to edit the pages, and I didn't > want the trouble of writing and deploying a dynamic site, setting up > a web server, and administering a database. A static site would be > faster, easier to deploy, and more secure. But the dynamic frameworks > offered one thing that the static site generators did not: an easy way > to separate data from presentation. This was becoming increasingly > important to me as I found myself constantly updating the same > information (say, publication data for a paper) in multiple places (say, > a LaTeX CV and a differently formatted web listing of papers). > > What I wanted was a site generation tool that used YAML text files > as a database and allowed different kinds of documents to be produced > from the same data. I couldn't find anything that did just what I > wanted, so I wrote yst. By way of illustration, here are the build > instructions for HTML and LaTeX versions of a CV, plus a web page with a > list of papers: > > - url: cv.html > title: CV > template: cv.st > data_common: &cvdata > contact: from contact.yaml > jobsbyemployer: from jobs.yaml order by start group by employer > degrees: from degrees.yaml order by year desc > awards: from awards.yaml order by year desc group by title > papers: from papers.yaml order by year desc where (not (type = 'review')) > reviews: from papers.yaml order by year desc where type = 'review' > talks: from talks.yaml where date < '2009-09-01' order by date desc group > by title > dissertations: from dissertations.yaml order by role then year group by > role > theses: from theses.yaml order by year then student > courses: from courses.yaml order by number group by title > data: > <<: *cvdata > html: yes > > - url: cv.tex > title: CV > inmenu: no > template: cv.st > layout: layout.tex.st > data: > <<: *cvdata > html: yes > > - url: papers.html > title: Papers > template: papers.st > data: > papersbyyear: from papers.yaml order by year desc then title group by year > > yst's query language is limited, and there are lots of things you can > do with a full-fledged database that you can't do with yst. But yst > is ideal, I think, for small to medium data-driven sites that are > maintained by a single person who likes working with plain text. It > scratched my itch, anyway, and I release it in case anyone else has the > same itch. > > Code, documentation, and bug reports: http://github.com/jgm/yst/tree/master > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- jinjing _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
