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Ali
Ali

Reputation: 7483

Can't create pdfs with pdfkit - PDFKit::NoExecutableError

I got pdfkit install and even set up wkhtmltopdf installed as well however I'm getting the following error everytime I try to create a pdf.

PDFKit::NoExecutableError 
No wkhtmltopdf executable found at bundler: command not found: which
Install missing gem executables with `bundle install`
>> Please install wkhtmltopdf - https://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit/wiki/Installing-WKHTMLTOPDF

My Gemfile has the following:

gem 'jquery-rails'
gem 'devise'
gem 'carrierwave'
gem "wkhtmltopdf"
gem 'pdfkit'

And my application.rb has the following entry:

config.middleware.use "PDFKit::Middleware", :print_media_type => true

am I missing something here - I've run a bundle install but still get this error everytime I try to create a pdf. Please help

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8892

Answers (3)

damuz91
damuz91

Reputation: 1728

None of the above worked for me. I tried the solution posted in here https://github.com/pdfkit/pdfkit/issues/123

Upvotes: 0

tdm00
tdm00

Reputation: 89

Ali,

I don't see you mention which operating system you're on. Fl00r, and I, are both assuming that it's a Linux system, so adjust accordingly. This is what I needed to do to make PDFKit work with wkhtmltopdf for my Rails application running on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Remove any reference to wkhtmltopdf or wkhtmltopdf-binary from your Gemfile.

Add only gem 'pdfkit', :require => 'pdfkit' to your Gemfile

In your config/initializers/mime_types.rb file add

Mime::Type.register "application/pdf", :pdf

Remove any config/initializers/pdfkit.rb file

Uninstall the gems from the server that you're running the Rails application on

gem uninstall wkhtmltopdf -a
gem uninstall wkhtmltopdf-binary -a

Download to your server wkhtmltopdf-0.10.0_rc2-static-amd64.tar.bz2 from the project download site here. There is a bug in the latest suggested download versions that prevent a user from being able to select and copy text from a generated PDF, but this version doesn't have that bug. This issue is referenced at http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=886

Extract the executable from the tar archive

tar -xvf wkhtmltopdf-0.10.0_rc2-static-amd64.tar.bz2

Move it to the /usr/local/bin/ directory

sudo mv wkhtmltopdf-0.10.0.rc2 /usr/local/bin/

Now setup a symbolic link to the file so it's easy to upgrade at a later point

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf-0.10.0.rc2 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf

Set the permissions on the file

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf-0.10.0.rc2

After doing all of this, and restarting my server, PDFKit will now use the wkhtmltopdf that I have installed on the server.

Caveat: On one occasion my Rails application started reporting that it couldn't find the wkhtmltopdf executable in the path, not sure why as nothing changed. Restarting the server corrected this issue.

Upvotes: 2

fl00r
fl00r

Reputation: 83680

You should read Install readme here:

https://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit

so you need to install wkhtmltopdf manualy:

https://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit/wiki/Installing-WKHTMLTOPDF

or like this

gem install wkhtmltopdf-binary

PS

check which wkhtmltopdf

and create new file config/initializers/pdfkit.rb

PDFKit.configure do |config|
  config.wkhtmltopdf = 'PATH/TO/wkhtmltopdf'
end

Upvotes: 6

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