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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 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 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

Hii All I use ruby 1.8.7 I run irb and type: a = (0.29 * 100).to_i the result is 28 why?????? could u explain to me.. Please???? THank you -- 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 email 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 = []

Railers, I am running an application on Rails 2.3.2. For some reason within our organization, we wish to remain on this version of Rails. For BDD/Testing, we use Cucumber. So I installed Cucumber (0.8.5), Capybara (0.3.9) and Selenium-webdriver (0.0.17). But when I run Cucumber on any feature, I get an error saying *" wrong number of arguments (2 for 1) (ArgumentError)"*, (Check here

We are currently seeking a very experienced Ruby on Rails developer to complete our Rails development; a social networking platform for businesses and their customers. The project is 90%-95% complete, but we need someone (or some company) to complete it and provide the ongoing support and long term development that will be needed. The system currently also includes a product shopping cart system

Hi guys This is a pretty tricky one. I get a "undefined method `protect_against_forgery?'' for #<ActionView::Base:0x569a3d4>" error when trying to generate a partial from ''outside'' the web site. I do this as I have a rake task that checks for changes periodically in the background, and if it then sees a change it rebuilds the partial and posts the result

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 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)

I know that the following statement loads the scaffold stylesheet, but what exactly does stylesheet_link_tag do here? <%= stylesheet_link_tag ''scaffold'' %> Thanks. -- 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

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 all, I just published my first gem, I''ve extracted it out from a project I''m working on and just hope it would be useful to others, and get some community improvment/suggestions. The code is located on github here http://github.com/arjes/Cache-Column Hopefully the README has enough details show what my inevitable goal was. I have a few questions that I found poorly

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 guys, I have written a rails plugin/gem to generate css sprite image automatically. The project repository is here: http://github.com/flyerhzm/css_sprite It is based on RMagick and you need only define a rule from what source images to a destination image, as follows: forum_icon_vertical.gif: # destination image file sources: # source image file list - good_topic.gif

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

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