info_tfgrid/docs/hero_create_mdbook.md

Create a New mdbook with Hero

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Prerequisites
• Creating a New mdbook
  • Cloning the mdbook Repository
  • Directory Tree Example
  • Files and Directories Example
• Generating the mdbook Locally
• Pushing the Changes
• Generating the mdbook from a Remote Repository

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Introduction

We show how to build an mdbook using the Hero tool.

For this guide, we will show how to add an mdbook to the TFGrid repository info_tfgrid on git.ourworld.tf.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding further, make sure you read and completed the guide on how to use Hero and mdbook.

Creating a New mdbook

Let's go through all the steps to create a new mdbook. We will call our book new_mdbook.

Cloning the mdbook Repository

For this guide, we will add a book to info_tfgrid. For this reason, we first start to clone the repository. Note that this step can be done automatically by Hero, but it might be easier to do it manually for later steps, such as pushing changes with git.

mkdir -p /root/code/git.ourworld.tf/tfgrid
cd /root/code/git.ourworld.tf/tfgrid
git clone https://git.ourworld.tf/tfgrid/info_tfgrid
cd info_tfgrid

Once we've cloned the repository, we can make changes to the repository and then push it to git.ourworld.tf when we're ready.

Before creating the new mdbook, let's have a look at how the overall directory tree will look like.

Directory Tree Example

We first show the directory tree template to give an overview of the project. Without taking into account the other mdbooks within the repository, the overall directory tree would look like this:

├── collections
│   └── new_mdbook
│       ├── .collection
│       ├── new_mdbook_example1.md
│       └── new_mdbook_example2.md
└── heroscript
    └── new_mdbook
        ├── book_collections.md
        ├── context.md
│       ├── SUMMARY.md
│       └── sync_production.sh

Files and Directories Example

Hero uses three main directories to build an mdbook books, collections and heroscript. Let's have a look at each of them.

Note: Once you understand the logic, it's easier to just copy an existing Hero Mdbook and modify the copied files to fit with the new book.

• collections
  • This directory contains all the markdown files needed to build all the books in the repository.
    • In our case, we will put two markdown files in the new collections named new_mdbook
      • collections/new_mdbook/new_mdbook_example1.md
      • collections/new_mdbook/new_mdbook_example2.md
  • Note that each collections directory should contain a file called .collection. This file should be empty.

    touch .collection
    

• heroscript
  • This directory contains the file SUMMARY.md of every mdbook as well as a script file called sync_production.sh. Each summary file is within the proper mdbook directory (here we have new_mdbook).
    • In our case, we will have books/new_mdbook/SUMMARY.md.
    • The summary file will point to the markdown files we want our mdbook populated with.
    • We note that the SUMMARY.md file needs to point to a directory contained within the collections directory, as shown just below.

      - [Example 1](new_mdbook/new_mdbook_example1.md)
      - [Example 2](new_mdbook/new_mdbook_example2.md)
      

  • The script file named sync_production.sh should contain the following content (make sure to adjust with the proper book name):

    #!/bin/bash
    rsync -rv ~/hero/www/info/new_mdbook/ root@info.ourworld.tf:/root/hero/www/info/new_mdbook/
    

  • This directory contains three files that are necessary for Hero to build the mdbook, book_collections.md, context.md and sshkey.md
    • context.md sets the proper configuration for the mdbook using the command configure
      • This file is the same throughout all the info_tfgrid repository.

        !!books.configure
            buildroot:'~/hero/var/mdbuild'
            publishroot:'~/hero/www/info'
            install:true
            reset:false
        

    • book_collections.md has many purposes
      • It is used to generate the mdbook name
      • It points the URL where the SUMMARY.md is located
        • In the directory heroscript
      • It also point the URLs where the markdown files are located
        • In the directory collections as we've seen above

      !!book.generate name:'new_mdbook' title:'New mdbook'
              url:'https://git.ourworld.tf/tfgrid/info_tfgrid/src/branch/main/heroscript/new_mdbook'
      
      
      !!doctree.add
          url:'https://git.ourworld.tf/tfgrid/info_tfgrid/src/branch/main/collections/new_mdbook'
      
      

Generating the mdbook Locally

Once you've created all the necessary files for your mdbook, you can build the mdbook locally with Hero:

hero mdbook -p $(pwd)/heroscript/new_mdbook

Then you can open the mdbook locally:

hero mdbook -p $(pwd)/heroscript/new_mdbook -o

If you're using a remote VM for Hero, you can run the following line to see the book on your local browser. Check the Hero Full VM guide for more information on this.

pushd /root/hero/www/info/new_mdbook/;  python3 -m http.server 5173; popd;

Pushing the Changes

Once you've set the files and directories for your new mdbook and that you are satisfied with the result, you can push the changes to git.ourworld.tf.

git add .
git commit -m "added new book to info_tfgrid"
git push

Generating the mdbook from a Remote Repository

Once the changes are uploaded to the remote repository, you will be able to update the local repository and build the new mdbook using the remote repository URL:

• Update the repository

  hero mdbook -u https://git.ourworld.tf/tfgrid/info_tfgrid/src/branch/main/heroscript/new_mdbook -gr
  

• Build the book

  hero mdbook -u https://git.ourworld.tf/tfgrid/info_tfgrid/src/branch/main/heroscript/new_mdbook -o