EbookGenerator

Rails gem to generate eBooks using the Markdown syntax to format content for sections of the book.

An example of this gem being used can be found at: dskri.be

Requires:

• Rails 4
• Rubyzip (to generate the .epub)
• Redcarpet (to render Markdown into HTML)
• Kindlegen (to generate .mobi files)

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ebook_generator'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ebook_generator

Generate the tables needed to process the ebooks: rails generate ebook_generator

Migrate the database: rake db:migrate

Pass the ebook object you want to generate: EbookGenerator.generate_ebook(ebook_object)

This will then generate an ePub based on the values in the db and output to the /tmp folder.

For a Kindle mobi file then pass in kindle as the second argument: EbookGenerator.generate_ebook(ebook_object, 'kindle')

To enable the generation of Kindle mobi files then you will first need to download the kindlegen command line tool from Amazon and put it in your apps /bin directory.

• Style editing

• PDF out

• HTML out
• Image support for the front cover

• HTML to eBook conversion

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/ebook_generator/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request