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Cyrax is a static site generator using Jinja2_ template engine.
It's inspired by Jekyll_ and Hyde_ site generators and started when I realized that I'm dissatisfied with both of them for different reasons. When I tried to come up with name I remembered my favourite character from Mortal Kombat 3 so here we go.
Well, it's quite simple, as usually::
pip install cyrax
Cyrax depends on the Jinja2 template library, so you can install it through your OS package system (in other case pip will install it automatically).
Note, please, that in order to use parsers like markdown, or reST, or textile, corresponding libraries should be installed (either python-markdown or python-markdown2 are good enough for markdown).
Read some docs_, run cyrax --help to read about command line options, look
at example site_.
Also it's really easy to extend Cyrax, see an example_.
.. _an example: https://github.com/piranha/osgameclones/blob/master/_ext.py
Indeed something happens with each release and you are probably interested what
(and too lazy to read changelog_).
.. _changelog: http://github.com/piranha/cyrax/
3.1 (17.12.2019)
- Fix for rendering unicode data to file
3.0 (01.10.2019)
settings.cfg renamed to .cyrax.cfg2.7 (11.10.2016)
- support for globs in `exclude` in `.cyrax.cfg`
2.6 (10.10.2016)
do extension available in templates2.4-2.5 (16.08.2011)
- drop unused dependency on cherrypy
- make rst render start with h2 in inner sections
2.3 (28.12.2010)
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- rework RstPost a bit, removing nasty bugs with template caching
2.1-2.2 (21.12.2010)
2.0 (18.12.2010)
- refactored module system, no more ``cyraxlib``, only ``cyrax`` now exists
- completely refactored internal models system, now it uses usual inheritance
instead of some strange composition (which means it's easier to understand
and to extend now)
- ability to write posts in reStructuredText (which as well could serve as an
`example`_ to writing your own models).
.. _example: http://github.com/piranha/cyrax/blob/master/cyrax/rstpost.py
1.0-1.1 (28.11.2010)
url_for) are relative to
current page, which means that you mostly can view your site without using
web-server (though you'll need to click on index.html yourself :).. _Jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/ .. _Jekyll: http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/ .. _Hyde: http://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde/ .. _repository: http://github.com/piranha/cyrax/ .. _docs: http://cyrax.readthedocs.org/ .. _example site: http://github.com/piranha/cyrax/tree/master/content/
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We found that cyrax demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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