![]() ![]() In the past I have been happy enough with the latter, but on first glance what was available for Rails was either not ready for prime time or costly (Prince). The author, Jakob Truelsen (( ]( ))) was very helpful and responsive when I emailed him directly about a problem to which I could not find an answer.īack to the main event now, there was the decision to use a DSL such as Prawn or to find an html to pdf converter. ( Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.]( Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.)) To digress for a moment, this is the site for wkthmltopdf: I went through some trial and error and research in several areas before I came up with what ended up working for us, which is wkhtmltopdf (Web Kit Html to Pdf). I recently had the requirement of serving a certain report from a Rails based system in pdf format. Title: Using wkhtmltopdf with Ruby and Railsĭescription: Pdf generation with wkhtmltopdf on Rails PS, I am copying the text of my blog below… may not be pretty but in there is some info on installing the static binary: If anyone has any pointers they would be greatly appreciated ![]() It kind of feels like I have drifted down the wrong path completely with I'm still getting a permissionĭenied exception but as far as I can tell the file is rwx for all This didn't go smoothly and I had to add the directory and change some Install wkhtmltopdf by hand or try running `pdfkit -install-wkhtmltopdf` No wkhtmltopdf executable found at /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf Of the pages in my app and I got the following action controller I then tried to see if a could get a pdf version of one I added PDFkit to my gemfile and the appropriate config options to myĪpplication.rb. It is a rails 3 app, 1.9.2 running on snow leopard. I was wondering if anyoneĮlse has experienced similar problems or has any clues as to what is When I ran into a few problems installing wkhtmltopdf ( I also postedĪbout my problem in the episode comments). I was following along with Ryan Bates' really great railscast on PDFkit ![]()
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