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Can Rails be used for printing an order in a store application that has arrived? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m researching generating PDF files via RoR. I see there are packages available to do this. One such package is the PDF-Writer. The examples I saw for this package save the PDF to a file. Is there a way I can output the PDF on-the-fly to the browser rather than having a temporary PDF file? I just can''t have these files laying around since they contain sensitive

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 -- Posted via

Hi, For my app i need to generate pdf file for reports. I am trying the railspdf plugin, got it installed using command: ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/railspdfplugin/railspdf/ The problem is that when i re-started my webrick it won''t run, with errors messages like this (shown only first message): *D:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5

I haven''t delved into the wonderful world of PDF::Writer yet, nor have I run across a need.. but I just had an idea I wanted to throw out there how hard would it be to create a .rpdf template plugin for rails? could be neat ;]

Is there a ruby equivalent for the phpinfo() php function that displays all the variables and environment settings ? Thanks, vasu. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Is anyone using Pdf::Writer? I don know how to insert html tags in a pdf using Pdf::Writer, except <b> and <i> I think an idea is with Pdf::TechBook but i hadn''t seen any example till now. -- Cheers, ioana k&a http://boulangerie.wordpress.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Greetings all - happy new year, I''m having problems getting Pdf::Writer image insertion. pdf.image "/path/to/images/logo.jpg" is firing "JPEG marker not found!" Originally created the RGB (8 bit) JPEG in photoshop. After the above, I''ve exported with an alternate tool using (OSX) preview. This tutorial

This forum has been a great resource for me. It would be great if i can search the forum before posting any question, as i''m sure someone has already posted that question before. The search function has been disabled for quite sometime now. I''ve already emailed the administrator but haven''t got any response. any idea on when this would be enabled ? Thanks, VASU.

hello everyone, Any idea how can i export a resultset from a database to a CSV or XLS file from the application ? would like the user to have the option to export selected data to a CSV/XLS file. Any plugins or libraries avaiable to accomplish this ? Thanks for your time, VASU. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I apologise in advance for this newbie question but I am still waiting to receive some books on ruby & rails and I can''t find the solution online. I am learning rails, (and since rails is the only thing I have used that is based on ruby I am also learning ruby,) by developing a small application for work to index and serve up images from a document store. The documents are

All, Apologies for the simplicity of the problem but getting started with InstantRails. Does anyone have any experience of setup in this way? Get to the: * Click on the Start SCGI button. * Once the SCGI server says that it is listening to 127.0.0.1:9999, open our browser and go to: www.mycookbook.com Unfortunately once I press the button, a DOS cmd window pops up and

hi Friends, Planning to use BlueHost.com for my Ruby on Rails application hosting on their $6.95 per month. Is anyone using them ? What version of ROR do they provide ? What kind of webserver does they provide ? How much RAM ? Can i re-start the web-server if my ROR application demands ? May be the above answers would be best answered by their sales dept. But if anyone is using them, please

Is there any way to request WEBrick to shutdown besides hitting CTRL-C at the console? I''m looking for, perhaps, a script/shutdown command, or perhaps a special URL that will request WEBrick to die. It can be a command run in a different shell, or, as I said, a special URL. Anyone? Tom Harris Cisco Systems -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

[Re-directing to R-help, as this is more appropriate there.] I tried copying the snippet of data into the windows clipboard and tried it: > dat <- read.table("clipboard", header=T) > dat Name Weight Height Gender 1 Anne 150 65 F 2 Rob 160 68 M 3 George 180 65 M 4 Greg 205 69 M > str(dat) `data.frame': 4 obs.

Hi all, I am trying to display a matrix of plots(images), for example a 3*3 matrix of 9 image plots, such that when a user clicks on a image i can show the enlarged plot. I tried the multiple graphic device(using mfcol=c(3,3) and mfg), but it creates multiple plots in a single image file. So, i won't be able to highlight a particular plot when the user clicks on it. To be more clear, can i

Hi all, I am trying to display a matrix of plots(images), for example a 3*3 matrix of 9 image plots, such that when a user clicks on a image i can show the enlarged plot. I tried the multiple graphic device(using mfcol=c(3,3) and mfg), but it creates multiple plots in a single image file. So, i won't be able to highlight a particular plot when the user clicks on it. To be more clear, can i

hello Friends, I am a newbie to "Ruby or Ruby on Rails". A J2EE application architect at my day job. A fairly experienced PHP web-developer as well. After reading into the many articles on Ruby/ROR, have to admit looks pretty good so far. Really serious about getting into this and possibly developing some good Web 2.0 applications. Just wondering the best way to learn Ruby on

Hello all, I have a data file table.txt which i have attached. I am trying to pass the columns as arguments to a function "totnorm" where i am displaying a total normalization plot. The function is given below: totnorm<-function(x,y){scale<-sum(x)/sum(y);xlab<-colnames(x);ylab<-colnames(y);x1<-x[[1]];y1<-scale*y[[1]];plot(x1,y1,xlab=xlab,ylab=ylab,col=6, col.lab=4);}

Hello all, I have a data file table.txt which i have attached. I am trying to pass the columns as arguments to a function "totnorm" where i am displaying a total normalization plot. The function is given below: totnorm<-function(x,y){scale<-sum(x)/sum(y);xlab<-colnames(x);ylab<-colnames(y);x1<-x[[1]];y1<-scale*y[[1]];plot(x1,y1,xlab=xlab,ylab=ylab,col=6, col.lab=4);}