Prawn-Rails

Dependencies

• prawn > 0.0.12
• Rails 3.0x
• Ruby > 1.8.7

Install

1.Add to the Rails Gemfile

gem 'prawn'
gem 'prawn-table'
gem 'prawn-rails'

to the Rails Gemfile

Usage

Create a view with pdf as format and prawn as handler should look like example.pdf.prawn

Your available to use all prawn document methods like pdf.text pdf.font_size and also block like pdf.font(FONT_NAME,opts) do pdf.XXXX end

For more documentation go to the manual

Build in helpers

• html_strip(html) Removes the html tags from a string
  

Default configuration

Add a prawn-rails.rb config to your Rails app under config/initializers like this

PrawnRails.config do |config|
  config.page_layout = :landscape
end

Examples

1. Hello World

   hello.pdf.prawn

   pdf.text hello world
   

2. ** Using Active Record **

   myproducts.pdf.prawn

   pdf.text "Current Products are"
   pdf.move_down 20
   pdf.table(@products.collect{ |p| [p.name,p.price]})
   

ToDos

1. Add per-render Configuration
2. Simple Html to PDF ?
3. Any Other requested

thx to

@rwilliams @sigmike @smber1 @iffyuva

Dev Notes

Gem works with any rails 3.0 version and ruby but for development It should be atlest Rails 3.1 (for the testing env) I'll try to fix that