Polites

Polites allows you to work with files generated by the Ulysses writing application for macos.

Most importantly, this gem allows you to take Ulysses .ulyz files as input and transform them into HTML, all from Ruby. Additionally, you can extract embedded media files from the .ulyz file.

See the API docs.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'polites'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install polites

Transform a file to HTML:

Polites::Convert.new.call('/path/to/file.ulyz')
# => (html content)

Parse a sheet:

Polites::File.open('/path/to/file.ulyz') do |f|
  sheet = Polites::Parser.new.parse_sheet(f.content)
  sheet.keywords # => ['Keyword1', 'Keyword2']
  sheet.files # => ['1a3577ba004942ecb71d8a940cab4b1f']
  Polites::HtmlFormatter.new.call(sheet)
  # => (html content)
end

When using Nanoc you can install polites-nanoc so you can use a Ulysses external folder as a Nanoc data source.

gem 'polites-nanoc'

Refer to the API docs for Polites::Nanoc for more information.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/avdgaag/polites. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

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

Everyone interacting in the Polites project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.