Apache Geode User Guide

This document contains instructions for building and viewing the Apache Geode User Guide locally and moving the built guide to the Apache Geode website for publication.

• About
• Automatic build
• Manual build
• Prerequisites
• Bookbinder Usage
• Building the Documentation
• Publishing the User Guide to the Geode Website

About

Apache Geode provides the full source for the Apache Geode User Guide in markdown format (see {geode-project-dir}/geode-docs/CONTRIBUTE.md). For every Apache Geode release the user guide is built and published to http://geode.apache.org/docs/. Users can build the markdown into an HTML user guide using Bookbinder and the instructions below.

Bookbinder is a Ruby gem that binds a unified documentation web application from markdown, html, and/or DITA source material. The source material for bookbinder must be stored either in local directories or in GitHub repositories. Bookbinder runs Middleman to produce a Rackup app that can be deployed locally or as a web application.

Automatic build

Documentation can be built and previewed using the utility scripts at dev-tools/docker/docs. These scripts use Docker, removing the requirement of installing Ruby and Bookbinder. They are based on the instructions described in the Manual build chapter.

Manual build

Prerequisites

Bookbinder requires Ruby version 2.0.0-p195 or higher.

Follow the instructions below to install Bookbinder:

1. Add gem "bookbindery" to your Gemfile.
2. Run bundle install to install the dependencies specified in your Gemfile.

Bookbinder Usage

Bookbinder is meant to be used from within a project called a book. The book includes a configuration file that describes which documentation repositories to use as source materials. Bookbinder provides a set of scripts to aggregate those repositories and publish them to various locations.

For Geode, a preconfigured book is provided in the directory {geode-project-dir}/geode-book, which gathers content from the directory {geode-project-dir}/geode-docs. You can use this configuration to build an HTML version of the Apache Geode User Guide on your local system.

Building the Documentation

1. The GemFile in the geode-book directory already defines the gem "bookbindery" dependency. Make sure you are in the {geode-project-dir}/geode-book directory and enter:

   $ bundle install
   

   Note: You will not have to run bundle install on subsequent builds.

2. To build the documentation locally using the installed config.yml file, enter:

   $ bundle exec bookbinder bind local
   

   Bookbinder converts the markdown source into HTML, which it puts in the final_app directory.

3. Navigate to {geode-project-dir}/geode-book/final_app/ and enter:

   $ bundle install
   

   Note: You will not have to run bundle install on subsequent builds. If you see errors during this step regarding the inability to install libv8, try running the command:

   $ gem install libv8 -v '3.16.14.15' --  --with-system-v8
   

   This can help you avoid errors with the default GCC compiler provided by Xcode on MacOS. This will only help circumvent the use of GCC to install libv8, so if you're on an operating system where you do not have access to a system install of libv8 this may not be possible or necessary.

4. To start a local website of the Apache Geode User Guide, enter:

   $ rackup
   

   You can now view the local documentation at http://localhost:9292.

Publishing the User Guide to the Geode Website

Once you have reviewed your local build of the User Guide, you can publish it by copying it to the Apache Geode website. The target directory should contain a Geode version number.

To copy the User Guide to the website repo:

1. Create the destination directory by navigating to the geode-site repo. Check out the master branch and create a destination directory for the User Guide. The naming convention is:

{geode-site}/website/content/docs/guide/XY ``` where XY is the product version of your documentation (e.g., `{geode-site}/website/content/docs/guide/12` if you are publishing the documentation for Apache Geode 1.2).

2. Navigate to the User Guide you have built in the Geode repository: {geode-project-dir}/geode-book/final_app/public/docs/guide/XY.

3. Use tar to copy the directory in order to preserve links and other filesystem niceties.

a. Create the tarfile in your Desktop for easy access on the retrieval side.

```
$ tar cvf ~/Desktop/new-guide-content.tar .
```

b. Create the destination directory in the geode-site repo:

```
$ mkdir -p {geode-site}/website/content/docs/guide/XY
```

c. Navigate to the target directory and un-tar the userguide archive:

```
$ cd {geode-site}/website/content/docs/guide/XY
$ tar xvf ~/Desktop/new-guide-content.tar
```

4. Follow the instructions in the README.md file on the master branch of the geode-site repo ({geode-site}/README.md) to build, review, and publish the Apache Geode website. You can also view the geode-site README.md file on github: https://github.com/apache/geode-site.