Rails - Jun 2006 - pdf simpletable help needed

i am trying to generate a pdf of all of the users in an application that 
i have built. i am still pretty new to ruby and rails so i don''t know 
the best way to go about it.

here is my controller code:

require ''pdf/writer''
require ''pdf/simpletable''

class ReportsController < ApplicationController

  def test
    _pdf = PDF::Writer.new
    table = PDF::SimpleTable.new
    user_data = []
    for user in User.find(:all)
      user_data << user.attributes
    end
    table.data = user_data
    table.render_on(_pdf)

    send_data _pdf.render, :filename => ''hello.pdf'', :type
=>
''application/pdf''
  end
end

i couldn''t figure out a better way to get the data out of the user
model
than looping through and adding the attributes to an empty array. then i 
used the array as my data for creating the pdf table.

currently i am getting an error saying that my columns are not defined, 
yet using the console, i can see that my array is formatted just like 
the ones in the examples.

any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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On 6/19/06, Josh Kieschnick <jjkiesch@gmail.com>
wrote:
>   def test
>     _pdf = PDF::Writer.new
>     table = PDF::SimpleTable.new
>     user_data = []
>     for user in User.find(:all)
>       user_data << user.attributes
>     end
You need to define your columns and column order here. You''re missing
something. Your array may be complete, but your *table* definition
isn''t.
>     table.data = user_data
>     table.render_on(_pdf)
After you define your columns, the above will work.

-austin
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