Ruby Markdown Resume Generator

Turn a simple Markdown document into an elegant resume with both a perfect pdf printable format, and a responsive css3 html5 file.

An Ruby adaption of Craig Davis's php-based project Markdown Resume Generator, which was described in his blog post for the project. Most of this README was lifted directly, appologies Craig :-)

It's a bit rough around the edges still, I got it to the point where it generated my CV in a format that I was happy with.

Features

Three styles to choose from: modern, blockish, unstyled
PDF generation via wkhtmltopdf
Responsive design for multiple device viewport sizes
Simple Markdown formatting
Single file deployment
You can now version control and branch your resume.

Quickstart

Assuming you've a recent ruby / bundler insall, you should be able to get going with:

bundle
./generate -h

for example:

./generate -T modern -f my-cv.pdf -p

Options

Choose a template/theme with the -T option.

Development

Markdown is limited to basic html markup. Follow the resume/sample.md file as a guideline. This file includes various headers and several nested elements. This allows us to construct a semantic HTML document for the resume, and then use a CSS rules to display a very nice resume. Note that because we have very few ways to nest or identify elements that many of the css rules are based on descendant and adjacent selectors.

TODO

Fix broken rspecs
Fix wkhtmltopdf path
Buy Craig a beer

Acknowledgments

As above, Craig Davis for his project.

The initial inspiration is from the Sample Resume Template. However, no HTML from that project has been used in this. General layout has been reused, and media queries have been added. It's a nice template, and if you are a more comfortable with html than markdown, you should use it.