OpenXC Vehicle Interface Reference Design

This repository is a part of the OpenXC project.

This repository contains the documentation and open source design files for the OpenXC vehicle interface reference design, originally created by Ford.

Documentation

The documentation is in the form of simple website, written in Markdown with the HTML generated with Jekyll.

Organization

• the *.mkd files are the source for the documentation website - they're very readable as plain text files, too, if you're just digging through the repository.
• static/ contains the static JavaScript, CSS and images for the site.
• _layouts/default.html contains the main layout for the site. There's only 1 layout for now, although there could others in the future.
• electrical/ contains the electrical design files and documentation.
• mechanical/ contains the mechanical housing design files and documentation.
• assembly/ contains documentation to support final assembly at a fabrication house.

Local development

If you do not have ruby and RubyGems installed (you already do on OS X), see below.

Assuming you have Ruby and RubyGems installed:

$ gem install rdiscount jekyll

Then, assuming you have Python's pip installed:

$ pip install pygments

Then run the local development server:

$ cd reference-vi
reference-vi/ $ jekyll serve -w

and point your browser to http://localhost:4000.

Jekyll uses the templates in the repository to generate a static html version of the site. The static version is always dumped in the _site subdirectory in the repository - this is not committed, since it's automatically generated. The -w flag turns on auto-recompilation, so anytime you change a file it will regenerate whatever files have changed, so you just need to refresh the browser to see your latest updates.

Installing Ruby and RubyGems

Cygwin in Windows

TODO is this necessary anymore?

Install the ruby, make, gcc, libiconv and zlib packages in Cygwin using the setup.exe you downloaded earlier. Download the RubyGems TGZ package from http://rubygems.org/pages/download and put it in C:\cygwin\home\<your username>. Fire up Cygwin and run this:

$ tar -xzf rubygems*.tgz
$ cd rubygems*
$ ruby setup.rb

Jekyll depends on posix-spawn v0.3.6, but that has a problem with compiling in Cygwin. The latest development version works, though, so install that gem from source before continuing:

$ git clone https://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn.git
$ cd posix-spawn
$ gem build posix-spawn.gemspec
$ gem install posix-spawn-0.3.6.gem

If you didn't get any errors, return to the top of this section and install jekyll.

Going Live

The documentation site is hosted on GitHub pages, so deploying is as simple as commiting your changes to the gh-pages branch and pushing to GitHub. It gets regenerated within a minute or two, and then it's live. This of course means don't push anything in the gh-pages branch that isn't 100% done!

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Ford Motor Company

The electrical and mechanical designs in this repository are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.