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plessl / wkpdf

A command line HTML to PDF converter for Mac OS X
http://plessl.github.com/wkpdf
MIT License
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How to build wkpdf? #32

Closed slessard closed 12 years ago

slessard commented 12 years ago

I'm new to Ruby, but not new to programming. I cloned the repo on my Mac (OS X 10.8.2). I have rubygems, rake, and jeweler installed. Running 'rake gemspec' succeeds, but running 'rake' fails with the message "Don't know how to build task 'default'." How do I actually build wkpdf?

plessl commented 12 years ago

Why do you want to build wkpdf? If you just want to use wkpdf there is no need to build a wkpdf gem yourself. You can just install from rubygems (see http://plessl.github.com/wkpdf/).

If you plan to use a modified wkpdf version you have two options. You can either just run wkpdf with the full path to the the working directory (/home/Users/where/wkpdf/lives/bin/wkpdf --source .. --output). Or you can build and install a gem for wkpdf yourself using these steps:

rake gemspec
rake build
rake install

Some more information can be found in the HOW_TO_RELEASE.txt file.

slessard commented 12 years ago

I wanted to build it because I fixed a minor issue with page sizes. I've got it build and installed locally now. I'll be sending a pull request as soon as my change shows up in the github web site. Thanks