Rails - May 2006 - pdf on the fly

In my rails app I need to create pdf reports on the fly. I have 
installed railspdf, wich is working fine. But, how can I create tables 
and paragraphs and stuff? Can I  mimic an .rhtml file (using <% for 
...%> etc? Or is it wise to use Ruby::PDF directly? Is there anyone out 
there with experience in this, and who is willing to share his findings? 
Thx

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Hi oom tuinstoel

See if this tutorial helps you,

http://www.artima.com/rubycs/articles/pdf_writer.html

Victor

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I switched to using rtex from PDF::Writer due to conflicts with
Transaction::Simple (which is used by both ActiveRecord and PDF::Writer). I
think those conflicts may be gone now, but I like the rtex system in any
case. I wrote a bit about it here:

http://convergentarts.com/articles/2006/03/21/rtex-pdf-mojo-on-windows

And the link to rtex:

http://codefluency.com/pages/rtex

On my site I mention posting a sample table, which I haven''t done yet.
Here''s a very simple table:

\begin{tabular}{l V{3.5cm} r}
  foo & blah      & bar \\
  foo & blah blah & bar \\
  foo & blah blah blah blah blah blah
                  & bar \\
\end{tabular}

That would be in the context of a .rtex page. See my blog if you''re
interested.

And now, to address your original question :).. to create a table using
PDF::Writer, try SimpleTable:

t = PDF::SimpleTable.new do |t|
        t.column_order.push(*%w(player parents email address citystzip
birthdate))

        t.columns["player"] =
PDF::SimpleTable::Column.new("player") { |col|
          col.heading = "Player"
        }
...

Then you render it to a pdf:

t.render_on(@pdf)

PDF::Writer has pretty good documentation for this:

http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/

-Tom

On 5/24/06, oom tuinstoel <oomtuinstoelNO@spamhotmail.com>
wrote:
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> In my rails app I need to create pdf reports on the fly. I have
> installed railspdf, wich is working fine. But, how can I create tables
> and paragraphs and stuff? Can I  mimic an .rhtml file (using <% for
> ...%> etc? Or is it wise to use Ruby::PDF directly? Is there anyone out
> there with experience in this, and who is willing to share his findings?
> Thx
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On 5/24/06, Tom Wilcoxen <tomwilcoxen@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I switched to using rtex from PDF::Writer due to conflicts with
> Transaction::Simple (which is used by both ActiveRecord and PDF::Writer). I
> think those conflicts may be gone now, but I like the rtex system in any
> case. I wrote a bit about it here:
It would be useful if someone could verify that this is the case. The
current version of Transaction::Simple should now be bundled with
Rails, with the long-term goal of removing it from the bundle.

-austin
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Tom Wilcoxen wrote:
> And now, to address your original question :).. to create a table using
> PDF::Writer, try SimpleTable:
> 
> t = PDF::SimpleTable.new do |t|
>         t.column_order.push(*%w(player parents email address citystzip
> birthdate))
> 
>         t.columns["player"] =
PDF::SimpleTable::Column.new("player") {
> |col|
>           col.heading = "Player"
>         }
> ...
> 
> Then you render it to a pdf:
This is what I do:

table = PDF::SimpleTable.new
table.data = @children
table.column_order.push(*%w(firstname group_id))

table.columns["firstname"] =
PDF::SimpleTable::Column.new("firstname") {
|col|
  col.heading = "Firstname"
}

to get a table. My problem is: how do I get values in there? Imean, 
children belong to groups, and to parents (real tablenames). What would 
be the easiest way to get groups.name and parent.lastname etc in the 
table?
table.render_on(pdf)


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