fb2rb is a Fiction Book 2 parser/generator library written in Ruby.

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'fb2rb'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install fb2rb

Usage

You can create FB2 book in memory and write it to file:

require 'fb2rb'

book = FB2rb::Book.new
book.description.title_info.book_title = 'Book title'

body = FB2rb::Body.new(nil, '<p>Book text</p>')
book.bodies << body

book.write_compressed('/path/to/book.fb2.zip')
# or
book.write_uncompressed('/path/to/book.fb2')

Also, you can read existing FB2 file:

require 'fb2rb'

book = FB2rb::Book.read_compressed('/path/to/book.fb2.zip')
# or
book = FB2rb::Book.read_uncompressed('/path/to/book.fb2')

puts book.description.title_info.book_title
puts book.bodies[0].content

Development

After checking out the repo, run bundle install to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rake spec to run the tests.