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[ANN] Full Ruport Book manuscripts now on Github

Gregory Brown

2/5/2009 10:51:00 PM

Hi folks,

I'm happy to announce that my friend Chenoa Siegenthaler has converted
the entire Ruport Book to asciidoc, and that the sources are now
available on github.

http://github.com/r...

The bookcan be build through Asciidoc to produce HTML and PDF, though
build instructions will need to wait until another day. But in the
mean time, people are welcome to start contributing fixes and
otherwise helping out. I will likely update the book when Ruport 2
rolls around, but the conversion of the sources to asciidoc represents
the next step in fully freeing the Ruport book up for community
contributions. It is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Sharealike license[0], so you are fairly unrestricted in
what you can do with it. Please enjoy, and feel free to discuss any
suggested changes or ideas you might have on the Ruport mailing list:
http://list.rubyr...

Though most of you are not likely to know Chenoa, I have been training
her in Ruby programming, and it's safe to say that this won't be her
only contribution to the Ruby community in general. So a big thanks
to her, and please enjoy the raw manuscript.

-greg

[0] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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13 Answers

Gregory Brown

2/6/2009 1:51:00 PM

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm I got some problems but with the adapted rakefile and new
> manuscript/forward.txt I get 98 pages and 15 chapters, still having
> some errors though.

Looks like we hardcoded the path for image generation. I won't be
able to look at this right away, but I'll check it out when I get a
chance.

Thanks for reporting this issue Robert.

-greg

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Rick DeNatale

2/6/2009 9:46:00 PM

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hmm I got some problems but with the adapted rakefile and new
> > manuscript/forward.txt I get 98 pages and 15 chapters, still having
> > some errors though.
>
> Looks like we hardcoded the path for image generation. I won't be
> able to look at this right away, but I'll check it out when I get a
> chance.
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue Robert.
>

Hmmm, I tried myself on OS X Leopard, figuring I might be able to debug the
problem.

First I installed ascii doc using ports.

Then I discovered that I don't have dblatex which isn't available in
macports. I think that fink (which I've never used, and have no idea how it
plays with macports) has it, but I wasn't interested enough to pursue it.

Oh well.

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Gregory Brown

2/6/2009 10:03:00 PM

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I just built dblatex from source, after grabbing asciidoc
> using macports.

Sorry, that was pretty ambiguous. I meant, I installed asciidoc
through macports and manually built dblatex.

-greg

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http://rubybestpra...

Gregory Brown

2/6/2009 10:03:00 PM

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm, I tried myself on OS X Leopard, figuring I might be able to debug the
> problem.

Thanks for checking it out.

I know what's wrong, I just haven't had a chance to fix it. Currently
the images are prefaced with a full path to a directory in the
manuscript... we need to make them relative. I'll get to it when I
can.

As far as I know, the PDF will still build, it just might omit some of
the figures.

> Then I discovered that I don't have dblatex which isn't available in
> macports. I think that fink (which I've never used, and have no idea how it
> plays with macports) has it, but I wasn't interested enough to pursue it.

I think I just built dblatex from source, after grabbing asciidoc
using macports.
--
Technical Blaag at: http://blog.majesticseacr...
Non-tech stuff at: http://metametta.bl...
"Ruby Best Practices" Book now in O'Reilly Roughcuts:
http://rubybestpra...

Robert Dober

2/6/2009 10:15:00 PM

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Gregory Brown
<gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As far as I know, the PDF will still build, it just might omit some of
> the figures.
>
98 pages, affirmative, I had not had any time looking into it though :(

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Rick DeNatale

2/8/2009 6:52:00 PM

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Gregory Brown
> <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > As far as I know, the PDF will still build, it just might omit some of
> > the figures.
> >
> 98 pages, affirmative, I had not had any time looking into it though :(
>

I got it to build, with images, and it's 103 pages.

That was a manual process though, I replaced all of the path prefixes for
the images in the manuscript/*.txt files with a hard-coded path prefix which
works for my machine.

It looks like there's some process which generates the manuscript/*.txt
files from the textile files, which we don't have. At least that's my
guess.

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Rick DeNatale

2/8/2009 7:43:00 PM

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On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I got it to build, with images, and it's 103 pages.
>
> That was a manual process though, I replaced all of the path prefixes for
> the images in the manuscript/*.txt files with a hard-coded path prefix
> which
> works for my machine.
>
> It looks like there's some process which generates the manuscript/*.txt
> files from the textile files, which we don't have. At least that's my
> guess
>

As a follow-up, I forked the git hub repository and added two tasks to the
rake_file

rake fix_images will convert any hard coded image links in the manuscript
directory so that they
work on your local machine. They'll still be hard coded, but they will
be hard coded just for you!

rake convert_all will run ascii doc on all of the manuscript/*.txt files
rather than requiring each one
to be passed in as a command line arg.

http://github.com/rubyredrick/book/t...

Greg, feel free to pull these changes if you're happy with them.

--
Rick DeNatale

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Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ri...

Gregory Brown

2/8/2009 9:38:00 PM

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On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>wrote:

> As a follow-up, I forked the git hub repository and added two tasks to the
> rake_file
>
> rake fix_images will convert any hard coded image links in the manuscript
> directory so that they
> work on your local machine. They'll still be hard coded, but they will
> be hard coded just for you!
>
> rake convert_all will run ascii doc on all of the manuscript/*.txt files
> rather than requiring each one
> to be passed in as a command line arg.
>
> http://github.com/rubyredrick/book/t...
>
> Greg, feel free to pull these changes if you're happy with them.

Good stuff, I'll definitely pull in convert_all. I might try to find
a more suitable fix for the image stuff.

Thanks for looking into this. On a completely unrelated note: You
might want to rename your fork ruport-book or something, for less
ambiguity. I guess my trick of github.com/ruport/book has its
disadvantages. :-/

-greg

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Rick DeNatale

2/8/2009 11:49:00 PM

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[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > As a follow-up, I forked the git hub repository and added two tasks to
> the
> > rake_file
> >
> > rake fix_images will convert any hard coded image links in the manuscript
> > directory so that they
> > work on your local machine. They'll still be hard coded, but they will
> > be hard coded just for you!
> >
> > rake convert_all will run ascii doc on all of the manuscript/*.txt files
> > rather than requiring each one
> > to be passed in as a command line arg.
> >
> > http://github.com/rubyredrick/book/t...
> >
> > Greg, feel free to pull these changes if you're happy with them.
>
> Good stuff, I'll definitely pull in convert_all. I might try to find
> a more suitable fix for the image stuff.
>
> Thanks for looking into this. On a completely unrelated note: You
> might want to rename your fork ruport-book or something, for less
> ambiguity. I guess my trick of github.com/ruport/book has its
> disadvantages. :-/
>

Okay the url is now
http://github.com/rubyredrick/ruport-book/tree... the clone url
is now: git://
github.com/rubyredrick/ruport-book.git

Anyone who cloned it be warned, you'll want to do something like

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin git://github.com/rubyredrick/ruport-book.git

--
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Robert Dober

2/9/2009 12:10:00 AM

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On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Okay the url is now
> http://github.com/rubyredrick/ruport-book/tree... the clone url
> is now: git://
> github.com/rubyredrick/ruport-book.git
>
> Anyone who cloned it be warned, you'll want to do something like
>
> git remote rm origin
> git remote add origin git://github.com/rubyredrick/ruport-book.git
>
Great job Rick! Just one question, would this patch for the Rakefile be useful?
------------------- 8< ---------------------
--- Rakefile 2009-02-09 01:03:27.000000000 +0100
+++ Rakefile.new 2009-02-09 01:09:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
task :default => [:build]

-task :build do
+task :build => :convert_all do
sh "export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH"
sh "dblatex xml/book.xml -o book.pdf"
sh "open book.pdf"
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
sh "asciidoc -d book -b docbook -o xml/ch_#{basefile} -s #{ARGV[1]}"
end

-task :convert_all do
+task :convert_all => :fix_images do
targetDir = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'xml')
sh "export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH"
FileList[File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'manuscript',
'*.txt')].each do |src|
---------------- >8 ----------------------------

Cheers
Robert