# gepub  [<img src="https://secure.travis-ci.org/skoji/gepub.png" />](http://travis-ci.org/skoji/gepub) [<img src="https://gemnasium.com/skoji/gepub.png" />](https://gemnasium.com/skoji/gepub)

* http://en.skoji.jp/category/gepub/

## DESCRIPTION:

a generic EPUB parser/generator library.

## FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* GEPUB::Book provides functionality to create EPUB file, and parsing EPUB file
* Handle every metadata in EPUB2/EPUB3.
* GEPUB::Builder privides easy and powerful way to create EPUB3 files

* See [issues](https://github.com/skoji/gepub/issues/) for known problems.


## SYNOPSIS:

### Builder Example

```ruby
require 'rubygem'
require 'gepub'
builder = GEPUB::Builder.new {
  language 'en'
  unique_identifier 'http:/example.jp/bookid_in_url', 'BookID', 'URL'
  title 'GEPUB Sample Book'
  subtitle 'This book is just a sample'

  creator 'KOJIMA Satoshi'

  contributors 'Denshobu', 'Asagaya Densho', 'Shonan Densho Teidan', 'eMagazine Torutaru'

  date '2012-02-29T00:00:00Z'

  resources(:workdir => '~/epub/sample_book_source/') {
    cover_image 'img/image1.jpg' => 'image1.jpg'
    ordered {
      file 'text/chap1.xhtml'
      heading 'Chapter 1'

      file 'text/chap1-1.xhtml'

      file 'text/chap2.html'
      heading 'Chapter 2'
    }
  }
}
epubname = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'example_test_with_builder.epub')
builder.generate_epub(epubname)
```
[more builder examples](https://gist.github.com/1878995)
 [examples in this repository](https://github.com/skoji/gepub/tree/master/examples/) 

## INSTALL:

* gem install gepub



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