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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

Hi ! I need to create some pdf from my application. I have a table people with a field address and I need to generate a pdf of label of each address ( I think 10 labels per page). The pdf can have around 500 pages. Which library should I use to do it ? I read some information about different library to generate pdf but I don''t know if all library are a good choice for generate

Hi, I need PDF creation in Rails and decided for RFPDF. Everything works quite nice the only problem is that I can''t display ä,ö,ü in the pdf documents. I found a tutorial that says that I have to create a font config file with MakeFont. I did it, but now I don''t now where to put al this files. Does anyone has experience with creating PDFs in Rails with ä,ü,ö letters? Thx

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 -

Hi is there any way of generating reports other than xls and pdf. I am using my sql . -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To

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 = []

Hi, I am trying to create a pdf using ruby jasper. For this I am referring this url:- http://oldwiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/howtointegratejasperreports I have done everything whatever is in that link. Still I am not able to get the pdf. I am not getting any error in log file. My log file is:- "Processing AccountController#customer_report (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-04-27 13:19:34) [GET]

I was having great success with creating PDFs with prawn, I followed Ryan Bates latest screencast. All good. Trouble is when i come to deploy the app on my webhost I ran into trouble. Rails 2.3 app. I did, "sudo rake gem unpack prawn" to freeze it in. I put the app on my webhost but it won''t start, some error saying it can''t find prawn. Any ideas? (summary: works

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)

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

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

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 Guys I need help.. I want to making 1 controller for covert html to pdf.. But that html have amchart (swf). When I tried convert, the swf not loadded... Any body can help me Please???? -- Senior Rails Developer Anton Effendi - Wu You Duan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send

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)

hi, everyone, i have googled around for some pdf generators. Found 1) PDF::Writer which is a little dated 2) Rupdf (http://scoop.simplyexcited.co.uk//2007/12/15/rupdf-simple- ruby-pdf-rails-plugin/ and http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/rupdf) - it''s a little dated. Last revision was on 15th of Dec, 2007. Any recommendations for pdf generators? thank you -- You received this

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

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

I am at a point where I will need to print checks in an application. I guess the best way to describe this is that I am using pre-printed checks and that I want to hit the prescribed areas with my text output. Should I be doing something like PDF output like pdf-writer or other or can I possibly do this with html and css? My output will be check runs of many checks with 1 page per check. Any

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/. --