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.
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.rubyreports.org
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] Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Gregory B.
[email protected] wrote:
mean time, people are welcome to start contributing fixes and
her in Ruby programming, and it’s safe to say that this won’t be her
“Ruby Best Practices” Book now in O’Reilly Roughcuts:
http://rubybestpractices.com
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.
rake or rake config
ok
rake build
in
/home/robert/docs/Ruby/ruport-book-a793237e2bcf8134e5e2d51a0b8cec7a650cfd1c)
Build the listings…
XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.2.9-2)
Build book.pdf
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
%&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
%&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
%&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
Image ‘/Users/chenoa/devel/ruport_book/manuscript/images/tattle.png’ not
found
Image
‘/Users/chenoa/devel/ruport_book/manuscript/images/payr_intro_screen1.png’
not found
Image
‘/Users/chenoa/devel/ruport_book/manuscript/images/payr_intro_screen2.png’
not found
Image
‘/Users/chenoa/devel/ruport_book/manuscript/images/payr_intro_screen3.png’
not found
Image
‘/Users/chenoa/devel/ruport_book/manuscript/images/payr_formatting_screen1.png’
not found
Image
‘/Users/chenoa/devel/ruport_book/manuscript/images/weekly_report.png’
not found
Image ‘/Users/chenoa/devel/ruport_book/manuscript/images/simple.png’ not
found
Image ‘/Users/chenoa/devel/ruport_book/manuscript/images/header.png’ not
found
Image ‘/Users/chenoa/devel/ruport_book/manuscript/images/foo.png’ not
found
Image ‘/Users/chenoa/devel/ruport_book/manuscript/images/bar.png’ not
found
‘book.pdf’ successfully built
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Robert D. [email protected]
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
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Gregory B.
[email protected]wrote:
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.
–
Rick DeNatale
Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Gregory B.
[email protected] wrote:
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Rick DeNatale [email protected] 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
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Rick DeNatale [email protected]
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.
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Gregory B.
[email protected] 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 
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Robert D. [email protected]
wrote:
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Gregory B.
[email protected] 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.
–
Rick DeNatale
Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Rick DeNatale
[email protected]wrote:
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/tree/master
Greg, feel free to pull these changes if you’re happy with them.
–
Rick DeNatale
Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Rick DeNatale [email protected]
wrote:
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Rick DeNatale [email protected]wrote:
to be passed in as a command line arg.
http://github.com/rubyredrick/book/tree/master
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 - ruport/book: Ruport Book Asciidoc sources, please feel free to contribute! has its
disadvantages. :-/
-greg
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Gregory B.
[email protected]wrote:
directory so that they
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 - ruport/book: Ruport Book Asciidoc sources, please feel free to contribute! has its
disadvantages. :-/
Okay the url is now
http://github.com/rubyredrick/ruport-book/tree/masterand the clone url
is now: git://
GitHub - rubyredrick/ruport-book: Ruport Book Asciidoc sources, please feel free to contribute!
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
–
Rick DeNatale
Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Robert D. [email protected]
wrote:
Great job Rick! Just one question, would this patch for the Rakefile be useful?
Yeah I plan to do that 
-greg
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Rick DeNatale [email protected]
wrote:
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
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Gregory B.
[email protected]wrote:
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Robert D. [email protected]
wrote:
Great job Rick! Just one question, would this patch for the Rakefile be
useful?
Yeah I plan to do that
I actually had it that way at first, but decided to not change too much
at
once.
–
Rick DeNatale
Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale