Downloadable epub ebook about restcookbook HOT 4 OPEN

That is actually a very cool idea. I will check it out, and see if we can automatically generate EPUB and PDFs.

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I've checked the extension and it seems to generate an EPUB. However, it seems that the epub is invalid. I figured that the content.opf file that is added to the epub is actually empty.

It's probably me doing something not right, but I'll check https://github.com/lmullen/jekyll-ebook, to see if that will work.

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jekyll-ebook doesn't seem to be really working. However, I got the jekyll-epub working with some modifcations to the epub.rb in the library:

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< File.open( File.join( self.dest, tmpl ), "w+" ).puts template_content

  f = File.open( File.join( self.dest, tmpl ), "w+" );
  f.puts template_content
  f.close()

Since the generated files weren't closed, they weren't flushed to disk yet, resulting in empty files on disk. These empty files were zipped later on, and it's not until later that the system flushed the data to disk. In result the files looks correctly on disk, but were empty in the epub-zip file. This is fixed by actually closing the files, which results in a flush so they are properly zipped. I don't know if this is an jekyll-epub issue, but if so, it's a simple patch I guess.

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So, in order to get this working:

• gem install jekyll-epub
• patch the epub.rb file
• run jekyll-epub so both the site and epub gets generated
• add a link to the site with the epub?

Initial work can be found at https://github.com/jaytaph/restcookbook/tree/wip/epub

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