Packaging of the Runestone components for publishing educational materials using Sphinx and restructuredText. Check out the Overview To see all of the extensions in action. NOTE -- If you have used an older version of this repo, please know this is a total restart. I think much better, and it WILL stay up to date as this is now the master copy of the components not just a copy. Check out the Development Roadmap to get an understanding of our migration towards webcomponents.
- If you are completely new to pip and github text editors, I have written a more thorough getting started
tutorial on my blog Otherwise, you can install everything you need with one simple command! (Although I recommend that you first create a virtual environment for your work.)
Install and make a Python virtualenv
- Documentation here: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/
- Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-v6yvGYFg
- For the impatient:
$ sudo pip install virtualenv $ virtualenv /path/to/home/MyEnv $ source /path/to/home/MyEnv/bin/activate
- You will need to do the last command every time you want to work on RunestoneServer. If you have not used Python virtual environments before I strongly recommend reading the docs or watching the video
With the virtual environment installed and configured you can continue.
pip install runestone
Or, if you prefer to live on the development edge, you can check out the very latest from:
pip install git+git://github.com/RunestoneInteractive/RunestoneTools.git
To start a project, create a new folder and then run the following command (installed by pip) in that new folder runestone init For example:
mkdir myproject cd myproject runestone init
The init command will ask you some questions and setup a default project for you.
To build the included default project run
runestone build
You will now have a build folder with a file index.html in it, along with some default content. The contents of the build folder are suitable for hosting anywhere that you can serve static web content from! For a small class you could even serve the content using the builtin Python webserver.
$ runestone serve
Now from your browser you can open up http://localhost:8000/index.html You should see the table of contents for a sample page. If you edit _sources/index.html or _sources/overview.rst and then rebuild and serve again you will see your changes. The best documentation is probably the overview.rst file itself, as it demonstrates how to use all of the common components and shows most of their options.
Windows Users I have tested the installation, along with init, build, and serve on Windows 8.1. The biggest pain is probably setting your PATH environment variable so you can simply type the commands from the shell. Please note that I am not a regular user of windows, I only test things on my VMWare installation every so often. If you are new to using Python on windows I recommend you check out this link on Using Python with Windows
So, you would like to help out with developing the Runestone Components. What do you need to know?
- Make a Fork of this repository.
- Setup your environment on your development machine
- Make a virtual environment for testing and working I recommend pyvenv-3.4 as it is baked in to Python 3.4 and higher.
- Rather than following the instructions above for installing runestone simply run
pip install -e .from the top level runestone directory. This will install all of the required prerequisites and setup the runestone install as a link to the development directory.
- When you have some changes to share, make a Pull Request.
If you already have an existing Sphinx project and you want to incorporate the runestone components into your project you can just make a couple of simple edits to your existing conf.py file.
- First add the following import line
from runestone import runestone_static_dirs, runestone_extensions - Then modify your extensions. You may have a different set of extensions already enabled, but it doesn't matter just do this:
extensions = ['sphinx.ext.mathjax'] + runestone_extensions() - Then modify your html_static_path:
html_static_path = ['_static'] + runestone_static_dirs()Again you may have your own set of static paths in the initial list.
See https://github.com/bnmnetp/runestone/wiki/DevelopmentRoadmap to get a sense for how this is all going to come together.