I just finished and released a complete rewrite of the bookshop gem. bookshop is a publishing framework for html-to-(e)book toolchain happiness and sustainable productivity. The framework is optimized to help developers quickly ramp-up, allowing them to more rapidly jump in and develop their html-to-(e)book (print-pdf, epub, mobi, etc.) flows, by favoring convention over configuration, setting them up with best practices, standards and tools from the start.

So feel free to… gem install bookshop

This is a major rewrite/switch from the last bookshop release. We’ve dropped docbook/xml/xslt/fop as our toolchain and moved to html/css/javascript/boom-microformat/wkhtmltopdf as our toolchain.

There are a number of reasons for this, but primarily we needed a developing environment for our publishing house that didn’t suck as bad as working with docbook/xml/xslt/fop/java. Enter html/css/javascript for the source, with boom-microformat for the structural markup, and wkhtmltopdf for the pdf processing.