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Wicked PDF - Essential Rails Gems
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Jesse Wolgamott
April 10, 2013
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Wicked PDF - Essential Rails Gems
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Jesse Wolgamott
April 10, 2013
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WICKED PDF Essential Rails Gems by @jwo for @houstonrb Tuesday,
April 9, 13
PDF Creation that doesn’t suck Prawn Prince PDF Pdfkit Rtek
(latex) DocRaptor acts_as_flying_saucer Tuesday, April 9, 13
Why Wicked PDF Great API Uses HTML/CSS you’re used to
Can use javascript in your PDFs Tuesday, April 9, 13
Bad Parts Difficult to render outside of Rails Request (Though
not impossible, see codebase at end) The Binary is hard to get configured to be found Tuesday, April 9, 13
Rails 4? Does not work for CSS/JS at time of
creation :( Tuesday, April 9, 13
Install gem install wicked_pdf Tuesday, April 9, 13
Development group :development do gem "wkhtmltopdf-binary" end Tuesday, April 9,
13
Production group :production do gem 'wkhtmltopdf-heroku' end Tuesday, April 9,
13
Recommended Workflow Create the PDF monthly Save PDF to S3
in CarrierWave Send link to download file Tuesday, April 9, 13
Hints Have a report.scss that includes parts you need to
include Have a report.js that includes parts asset_sync is your friend Easiest to render partials Tuesday, April 9, 13
Saving PDFs (CarrierWave) pdf = RendersPdf .new("statement/_show", {as_of_date: Date.today} )
.render account.account_statement.store!(pdf) Tuesday, April 9, 13
Must Do’s Add “application/pdf”, :pdf to MimeTypes respond_to do |format|
format.html format.pdf do render :pdf => "file_name", layout: 'report.html', "javascript-delay" => 5000 end end Tuesday, April 9, 13
Example Tuesday, April 9, 13
What did we just see? Using Bootstrap in your PDFs
Using Morris.js to graph in your PDFs Tuesday, April 9, 13
Codebase https://github.com/jwo/railsdotpdf http://railsdotpdf.herokuapp.com/ Tuesday, April 9, 13