Tornadofx: TornadoFX Guide link is down

[Zhuinden]

https://edvin.gitbooks.io/tornadofx-guide/ <-- inaccessible

[edvin]

It's working good for me, tested both yesterday and today.

[TuringTux]

Also inaccessible for me (and I have been able to access it in the past). Additionally, it seems like all other gitbooks.io sites are down as well (I've tested a handful random sites).

I think they are using Cloudflare, maybe it's a Cloudflare problem?

GitBook themselves say they are fully operational (http://status.gitbook.com/).

In the meantime, I'll probably simply use the sources of the Guide for my work (https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx-guide).

[edvin]

Seems like there is some kind of network issue somewhere. Good call on just using the sources of the guide. You could even just pull them down and work with them locally, nice to have everything searchable from within IntelliJ even :)

[TuringTux]

Thanks for the suggestion - I've pulled the sources and think I'll have a quick look around whether there are some automatic markdown rendering and linking tools. Be right back, building the documentation from scratch today :smile:

[edvin]

I believe IntelliJ has a built in Markdown viewer, or it's a plugin at least :) Handy to have it locally in case you find spelling errors or want to amend anything. PRs are most welcome!

[TuringTux]

I'll have a quick look around whether there are some automatic markdown rendering and linking tools.

I actually found a nice working alternative called mdBook:

1. Install mdBook
2. Use $ mdbook init to create a new book (actually, we only need the generated book.toml)
3. Execute $ rm -r src to remove the source directory
4. Clone the Guide repo to be the new src directory ($ git clone https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx.git src)
5. Execute $ mdbook build
6. The book directory now contains a working build of the guide, simply open book/index.html to open the book.

[TuringTux]

@edvin Would it be possible to rename the guide files from e.g. 12. TornadoFX IDEA Plugin.md to 12._TornadoFX_IDEA_Plugin.md (and update the links) to remove the spaces problem? If yes, I'd be happy to do so, because then mdBook would work as well.

Or would this break the GitBooks renderer?

Edit: Suggested this change in https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx-guide/pull/124, was merged, thanks a lot!

[bykka]

Have the same issue in Norway(Stavanger). The Internet provider is Lyse.

[TuringTux]

Still not working for me either. And not limited to the TornadoFX guide, as it seems.
Maybe someone should contact GitBooks?

[edvin]

Can you guys check if you can reach the guide at https://docs.tornadofx.io/?

[Zhuinden]

Yes, this works for me

The original gitbook link actually still doesn't work for me and it's been 2 months

[edvin]

OK! I think we'll simply link to the new URL instead of investigating the issue with GitBook further :)

[vitalyzhakov]

@edvin , hello!
Thanks for you work!

May be close this issue, as PR was merged?