Thanks. I'll put a note to this effect in the README. John
+++ Jinjing Wang [Aug 03 09 18:17 ]: > 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 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
