Rapicco

A wrapper tool of PicoRuby Rapicco terminal-based presentation.

Overview

Rapicco is a tool that shows presentation slide on terminal emulator by running picoruby process. It also converts Rapicco presentations into PDF documents capturing the ANSI terminal output from Rapicco and renders it as a high-quality PDF.

Requirements

Ruby (you can see supported versions in rapicco.gemspec)
Cairo graphics library
PicoRuby with Rapicco installed
- export PICORUBY_PATH=path/to/picoruby needs to be set

Installation

gem install rapicco

Usage

Create a presentation project (recommended)

Create a new presentation project along with mkdir:

rapicco new my-presentation
cd my-presentation

Or in existing directory,

cd my-presentation
rapicco new .

[!WARNING] The above command will override existing files.

This generates:

Gemfile with rapicco gem
Rakefile with presentation tasks
slide.md template
config.yaml configuration
README.md template
.gitignore

Install dependencies:

bundle install

Use rake tasks to manage your presentation:

bundle exec rake -T

Available tasks:

rake gem      # Create gem package
rake pdf      # Generate PDF
rake publish  # Publish gem to RubyGems.org
rake run      # Run presentation

Show presentation:

bundle exec rake run

Generate PDF:

bundle exec rake pdf

Create gem package:

bundle exec rake gem

Using CLI directly