= DocGist Anders Nawroth

DocGist is a URL proxy tool that converts AsciiDoc documents fetched from Gists (http://gist.github.com), GitHub repositories, Dropbox folders and other sources to HTML. The conversion to HTML is performed in the browser (client-side) using the https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor.js[Asciidoctor.js] JavaScript library

NOTE: DocGist is a hosted alternative to the Asciidoctor.js Live Preview extension for Chrome.

== Hosted Demo

See it live at http://gist.asciidoctor.org.

== Run Locally

To run DocGist locally, make it available somewhere on localhost. First, check out the code:

[source,shell] git clone git@github.com:asciidoctor/docgist.git cd docgist

With Ruby, you can then do something like this:

[source,ruby] ruby -run -e httpd . -p 9090

With Python, there's this:

[source,python] python -m SimpleHTTPServer

If you have Apache httpd running on your machine, you can for example add a symlink along the lines of the following to make it serve DocGist:

[source,shell] sudo ln -s /home/anders/git/docgist /var/www/docgist

The above makes DocGist available at http://localhost/docgist/.

== History

The original idea and code for DocGist came from http://gist.neo4j.org[GraphGist]. GraphGist is an interactive documentation tool for the Neo4j database and Cypher query language. Both tools were created by Anders Nawroth, an engineer at Neo Technology.

== Copyright and License

Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Anders Nawroth and the Asciidoctor Project. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.