Nikola 1.1 is out!

2012-03-30 22:59 | Also available in: Español

A simple yet powerful and flexible static website and blog generator, based on doit, mako, docutils and bootstrap.

I built this to power this very site you are reading, but decided it may be useful to others. The main goals of Nikola are:

Small codebase: because I don't want to maintain a big thing for my blog
Fast page generation: Adding a post should not take more that 5 seconds to build.
Static output: Deployment using rsync is smooth.
Flexible page generation: you can decide where everything goes in the final site.
Powerful templates: Uses Mako
Clean markup for posts: Uses Docutils
Don't do stupid builds: Uses doit
Clean HTML output by default: Uses bootstrap
Comments out of the box: Uses Disqus
Tags, with their own RSS feeds
Easy way to do a blog
Static pages outside the blog
Multilingual blog support (my own blog is english + spanish)

I think this initial version achieves all of those goals, but of course, it can be improved. Feedback is very welcome!

Nikola's home page is currently http://nikola-generator.googlecode.com

jjconti / 2012-03-31 12:48:

Mi prueba rápida no funcionó:

doit 0.15
mako 0.2.5
docutils 0.6

nikola-1.1$ ./dodo.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./dodo.py", line 146, in <module>
    execfile("nikola/nikola.py")
  File "nikola/nikola.py", line 367, in <module>
    lookup=template_lookup)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mako/template.py", line 82, in __init__
    _compile_module_file(self, file(filename).read(), filename, path)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mako/template.py", line 271, in _compile_module_file
    node = lexer.parse()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mako/lexer.py", line 156, in parse
    if self.match_tag_start(): 
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mako/lexer.py", line 208, in match_tag_start
    self.append_node(parsetree.Tag, keyword, attributes)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mako/lexer.py", line 94, in append_node
    node = nodecls(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mako/parsetree.py", line 211, in __call__
    filename=kwargs['filename']
mako.exceptions.CompileException: No such tag: 'block' in file 'templates/post.tmpl' at line: 3 char: 1

Roberto Alsina / 2012-03-31 13:47:

Ese Mako es viejiiiiiiiiiisimo. Los blocks existen desde Mako 0.4.1 y ya anda por el 0.7.
Es tambien posible que docutils 0.6 (que tiene como 3 años, actual es 0.8) te haga algún problema pero menor.

jjconti / 2012-03-31 20:54:

Ok,

easy_install doit
easy_install mako
easy_install docutils

y salió andando.

jjconti / 2012-03-31 13:15:

Mirando nikola.py

1) import nikola que hace? Ha! importa __init__.py... me sonó confuso, pero bué'

2) funciones como esta hacen que sea dificil de usar en otro sitio, no?

def permalink_year_es(year):
    return("http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/tr/es/weblog/%s/index.html"
        % year)

Habría que usar la variable BLOG_URL

Roberto Alsina / 2012-03-31 13:48:

Fijate que no se las llama desde ninguna parte. Me olvidé de borrarlas nomás :-)

El Nomoteta / 2012-03-31 15:38:

Lo tengo corriendo en localhost exitosamente.
Estaba buscando algo simple, quizas este lo sea demasiado pero de todas formas gracias por compartirlo

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