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require ''prawn'' require ''prawn/core'' require ''prawn/layout'' Prawn::Document.new do |pdf| subtable = pdf.make_table([[ "foo", "bar" ], [ "baz", "bax" ]], :column_widths => [ 50, 50 ]) { column(0).background_color = "808080" cells.borders = []

Hello, I''m writing a mail-merge application with Ruby on Rails. I have one user-created template, wich he creates with a CKEditor (in HTML). I have a list of members, and in the "mailings" controller I mix the template with the members data to create a PDF with a letter to every member. This is all working correctly... Except one part: I don''t know how to render

Hello: when i use Prawn to generate pdf file for download, i got a blank pdf file, can someone tell me why? require ''prawn'' class DownloadController < ApplicationController def download_pdf send_data(generate_pdf, :filename => ''test.pdf'', :type => ''application/pdf'') end private def generate_pdf

Hello, my question is rails related though it is also somewhat specific to the prawnto plugin (installed latest version as of 2010-03-15). I would ask on a prawnto forum/list if I knew where one was. Anyhow, I''m using rails 2.3.5 (with ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 111) in an app that is successfully using the prawnto gem (with the prawn gem version 0.7.1). I''ve got a a

Hi there, Can anybody show me (maybe copy/paste a simple code example) how to create the .pdf file from an existing (.xls) file, using the Prawn gem? Basically, I''d need the command that takes an existing (.xls) file to save it as a .pdf, afterwards. (I''m asking because the Prawn documentation at http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/docs/ seems to be gone since quite a while -

Hey folks, Unfortunately I''m not at RailsConf but if there are enough people interested in PDF generation in Ruby / Rails, please consider using the BoF sessions or some other time to get together and share thoughts about how PDF generation in Ruby can be better, and then have someone post notes from your discussions to the Prawn mailing list[0]. There are already a bunch of folks

Hi everybody, I''m trying to use the prawn gem into a new rails3 application on debian. What I did: As root: - install rubygems, from http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/73882/rubygems-1.4.2.tgz - gem install rails - gem install prawn - gem install pdf-reader - gem list | grep prawn => prawn (0.8.4) prawn-core (0.8.4) prawn-layout (0.8.4)

Thoughts on using WickedPDF vs PDFKit vs. Prawn or others for developing forms with dynamic content? TIA, Garrett Lancaster -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Hi, Chauk-Mean and all - I have just ported everything to 10.04 ubuntu, and I am pleased to note that I was able to use prepackaged stuff almost everywhere. Yes, it was painful before I figured it out. :) I used apt-get to install ruby-1.8.7, all the wx libraries (including the dev header packages) I uninstalled the debian rubygems package completely and installed rubygems-1.4.1 from the

Hi, Have anyone made a successful usage of Rails 2.3.3 with PrawnTo and Prawn ? I followed all the tutorials I could find on Net, but I am not able to see pdf part working. I kept getting the error "Template is missing". I do have foo.pdf.prawn. Same goes with pdf/writer as well. Thank you. Regards Balaji D Loganathan Spritle Software, http://www.spritle.com -- Posted via

I have a requirement to generate views (list and show views, including data and uploaded images) into a format that can be saved and/or emailed. I''m looking for opinions on the easiest way to achieve this. I''ve researched the use of both PDF::Writer and Prawn, and it seems that to re-generate my views in pdf format will require a lot of work. Is there an easier way using .rtf

When I run rake test:units I get this error: 292 tests, 350 assertions, 2 failures, 13 errors rake aborted! Command failed with status (1): [/usr/local/bin/ruby -I"lib:test" "/ usr/loc...] This error just showed up yesterday --- I have no idea how I caused it. Here is my gem list in case that helps: actionmailer (2.3.2, 2.2.2) actionpack (2.3.2, 2.2.2) activerecord (2.3.2, 2.2.2)

I have a form ... html ..... <% form_for @person do |f| %> ... html ..... <%= f.text_field :last_name %> ... html ..... <% end %> When last_name field of @person doesn''t contains french special symbols like ''é'', all characters are displayed in the input control (f.text_field :last_name ). Else only symbols before french special symbol are

submit.pdf.prawn files pdf.text "successfully submitted" form controller file def index @forms = Form.all respond_to do |format| format.html end end def submit respond_to do |format| format.pdf {render } end end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on

Hi folks, A new release of Prawn is out, with some bug fixes and a couple backported features from edge. This release is API-compatible with 0.2.0, so please do upgrade! Release notes at: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/archives/2008.10/prawn_0_2_1-2.html Enjoy! -greg -- Technical Blaag at: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com | Non-tech stuff at: http://metametta.blogspot.com

I''m using fastercsv such that in my rake file I''m doing this. require ''fastercsv'' It works fine on my Mac. I need to freeze this gem into the app though so my rake tasks work on the production machine. ----------- I spent about two hours though this weekend trying to get this Gem "frozen" into the vendor/gems folder. I tried all sorts, I ... -

Hi everyone, I need some insight into a problem I just started having. I''m running ruby 1.8.6 on an ubuntu box with the following gems installed: $ sudo gem list --local *** LOCAL GEMS *** actionmailer (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.3.2, 2.2.2) actionpack (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.3.2, 2.2.2) activerecord (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.3.2, 2.2.2) activeresource (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.3.2, 2.2.2) activesupport (2.3.5, 2.3.4,

Dear All, i am developing an application with rails 3, and now i need to generate a pdf file,i search a lot, and try a lot ,such as prawn ,PDFkit and so on, it seems that prawn is no response in rails3, and when i use PDFKit, it asked me to install wkhtmltopdf first, i try to install this,but failed, anyone can help me ? Thanks very much. Daisy -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --

Hi all, I was wondering how you guys generate reports from rails. I want to generate business reports in pdf format, and was wondering what you guys use. I have searched the web and found Ruport, but there isn''t much documentation or examples of real world business reports like jasperreports, for instance. Is it possible to generate good looking business reports with ruport? What other

Hello all, I am quite new to the puppet arena, but I am really impressed with puppet as a tool and the possibilities it gives you with regards to managing many systems. I am running dashboard 1.2.14 and am trying to query via the rake API: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/rake_api.html when I do, I get the following error: <snip> # sudo -u puppet-dashboard rake -f