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Max Puissant
Max Puissant

Reputation: 21

PDFKit usage Rails 5

I have managed installing PDFKit and wkhtmltopdf on Windows 10 for using with Rails 5.

But I can't find any relevant exemple on how to render a html.erb file to PDF.

I took a look on this : pdfkit Usage and it works to save any website to PDF.

I have a <div> that I want to render to PDF.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4885

Answers (2)

Max Puissant
Max Puissant

Reputation: 21

Answer :

1) Add gem 'pdfkit gem 'wkhtmltopdf-binary' to Gemfile.

2) Run bundle install

3) Install wkhtmltopdf, and run which wkhtmltopdf then paste this path to config/initializers/pdfkit.rb

`# config/initializers/pdfkit.rb
     PDFKit.configure do |config|
      config.wkhtmltopdf = '/home/harri/.rbenv/shims/wkhtmltopdf'
      config.default_options = {
        :page_size => 'A4',
        :encoding      => 'UTF-8',
        :print_media_type => true
      }
      config.default_options[:load_error_handling] = 'ignore'

# Use only if your external hostname is unavailable on the server. config.root_url = "http://localhost" config.verbose = false end `

4) In your controller : 

`html = render_to_string(:action => "edit", :layout => false)
      kit = PDFKit.new(html)
      kit.stylesheets << "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/stylesheets/pdf.css"
      #kit.to_file("#{Rails.root}/public/system/daoe/daoe" + @daoe.id.to_s+'.pdf')
send_data(kit.to_pdf, :filename => 'report.pdf', :type => 'application/pdf', :disposition => 'inline'`

Use kit.to_file if you want to save the PDF, or send_data if you want to render the PDF fullpage.

Upvotes: 0

Afsanefda
Afsanefda

Reputation: 3339

I recommend you to use Wicked_pdf gem to generate quick and easy pdfs on rails. Here are some examples for both wicked pdf and pdfkit.

Upvotes: 1

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