New EPUB and Mobi versions of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Many thanks! I love the both the book and the screencast. The way that you arrange the words and sentences make it easier for non-native English speaker to understand. But for now I'll stick with the PDF version as it is more easier to switch between text editor, terminal, and browser.

Re: New EPUB and Mobi versions of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Post by mhartl » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 9:57 PM UTC

For those curious about the process: making the EPUB and Mobi files was excruciating. I'm currently working on a project that should make it much easier in the future. Stay tuned.

Re: New EPUB and Mobi versions of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Post by danso » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 10:11 PM UTC

mhartl wrote: post #5

For those curious about the process: making the EPUB and Mobi files was excruciating. I'm currently working on a project that should make it much easier in the future. Stay tuned.

Thank you for your work and I'm particularly interested in your publishing process. I've been asked about making ebook formats for some of my HTML-based writing and have basically said, "that sounds waaaay too complicated"

Re: New EPUB and Mobi versions of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Post by __mharrison__ » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 10:14 PM UTC

mhartl wrote: post #5

For those curious about the process: making the EPUB and Mobi files was excruciating. I'm currently working on a project that should make it much easier in the future. Stay tuned.

For those of Python/rst leanings I've simplified the process for you :)

https://github.com/mattharrison/rst2epub2

Re: New EPUB and Mobi versions of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Post by telemachos » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 10:26 PM UTC

danso wrote: post #6

mhartl wrote: post #5

For those curious about the process: making the EPUB and Mobi files was excruciating. I'm currently working on a project that should make it much easier in the future. Stay tuned.

Thank you for your work and I'm particularly interested in your publishing process. I've been asked about making ebook formats for some of my HTML-based writing and have basically said, "that sounds waaaay too complicated"

This isn't a direct solution for you since your material is already in HTML. But LeanPub[1] is one simple way to get ebooks. You write in Markdown, and they produce pdf, epub and mobi formats.

[1]: https://leanpub.com