Rubyfu, the gem

Rubyfu gem is a simple way to run and read Rubyfu book offline as it is online. This gem should be continuously updated as the online version gets updated, but it's not instantly syncing.

How it works?

Well, the gem contains and HTML version of the book and it uses watir-webdriver gem to open the html file which gets served by Webrick ruby web server. So the webserver will serve the book, the browser will open it on the localhost.

How to use Rubyfu gem?

• Install rubyfu gem

gem install rubyfu

• Usage You can simply just run it from your command-line

rubyfu

Or use more options

rubyfu -h

Usage: rubyfu [OPTIONS]
Help menu:
    -p, --port NUM                   Port to listen on. Default 9911
    -h, --help                       Show the full help screen.

Examples:
    rubyfu
    rubyfu --port 9911

example

rubyfu -p 9911

How to contribute

There are several things that can be enhanced or contributed with,

Updating the offline contents (super-easy)

1. Fork then clone the Rubyfu book repository

git clone https://github.com/[YOURUSER]/RubyFu.git

2. Generate/Build an HTML Using gitbook-cli application

cd Rubyfu
gitbook install
gitbook build 

This will generate a folder named _book contains HTML version of the book

3. Fork then clone the Rubyfu gem repository

git clone https://github.com/[YOURUSER]/RubyfuGem.git

4. Paste the generated HTML book (_book) folder in rubyfu/_book gem directory, then push it

cp -a _book ../RubyfuGem/

5. Crate a new pull request (PR) to https://github.com/rubyfu/RubyfuGem/

To report any issue, please refere to issues Done!

Enhancing how the gem application is working

Known Issues

• The gem misses and important mission, which is the synchronization between the webrick and *browser process so if you close the browser, the webrick will keep working in the background.

• Make gem update smarter

Currently, each time we update the book, we've to update the gem even we did nothing with the gem's code

• Gem's command-line should check the latest gem version
• Gem should check the latest book contents (create a repo, maybe?)
• If the gem is latestet, and book content is not, then the content only should get updated, make sense!
• If the gem is not latest then update the gem and gem update shall contain latest content.

gem test

rake build

gem publish

gem push pkg/

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.