# Real World Case Study - Build (Online) Books with Markdown and the Jekyll (Static) Website Compiler - Free Ruby Reference 2.5 Book

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**Created:** [April 8, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/real-world-case-study-build-online-books-with-markdown-and-the-jekyll-static-website-compiler-free-ruby-reference-2-5-book/1679 "2018-04-08T07:21:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/real-world-case-study-build-online-books-with-markdown-and-the-jekyll-static-website-compiler-free-ruby-reference-2-5-book/1679/1 "2018-04-08T07:21:58Z")

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Hello,  
Thanks to Victor Shepelev ([@zverok](https://zverok.github.io/blog/2018-04-06-reference.html)) for showing us how to build (online) books w/ text (w/ markdown formatting) and the Jekyll (static) website compiler.

See the live free Ruby 2.5 Reference - [https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubyref](https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubyref) Find the Source @ [https://github.com/rubyreferences/rubyref/tree/master/\_src](https://github.com/rubyreferences/rubyref/tree/master/_src)

Do you know any other books published with Jekyll? Let us know! What’s your way?