Feature Request: Any chance we could add asciibuild?

[Bruno-366]

asciibuild seems like a really good option if one wants to do literate programming, I suspect that in order to add it to this action the easiest thing would be to ask asciidoctor/docker-asciidoctor to include it in their dockfile?

Here is asciibuild's dockfile from the building instructions

FROM alpine
RUN apk add --no-cache bash make build-base ruby ruby-rdoc ruby-irb ruby-bundler ruby-dev py-pip docker
RUN pip install pygments

RUN mkdir -p {{workdir}}
COPY . {{workdir}}/
WORKDIR {{workdir}}
RUN bundle install
RUN gem build asciibuild.gemspec
RUN gem install ./asciibuild-*.gem -l
RUN rm -Rf {{workdir}}
RUN apk del build-base make ruby-dev

VOLUME /usr/src
WORKDIR /usr/src

ENTRYPOINT ["asciibuild"]

One issue I could see arising is that in order to execute the pieces of code in a literate programming document is that environment needs to have installed that programming language, and so there would need to be a way to configure the docker image so that it includes the programming languages that are used by the literate programming document.

[manoelcampos]

I had never heard about literate programming, despite it's a pretty old Donald Knuth thing 😄.
I checked the examples on asciibuild and it's really amazing. It opens up a world of possibilities.
However, installing asciibuild inside the container may slow down the build process.
Maybe the best option is to request docker-asciidoctor to include it.
Please give it a try and let me know what you could get.

[Bruno-366]

absolutely! :)

[manoelcampos]

Any updates on that?
If you get asciibuild installed by default on the docker container, you can just use the new post_build parameter.

[Bruno-366]

haven't gotten any response from docker-asciidoctor

[manoelcampos]

In this case, maybe a pre_build parameter would fix the issue. This way, you could install anything you want in your own container. What do you think?

[manoelcampos]

The pre_build parameter was introduced in #21.
Closing this issue.

[manoelcampos]

Please let me know if you can manage to install asciibuild using the new pre_build parameter.
I'd love to try it.

[Bruno-366]

ok i'll try 👍