Shrimp

Creates PDFs from URLs using phantomjs

Read our blogpost about how it works.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'shrimp'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install shrimp

Phantomjs

See http://phantomjs.org/download.html on how to install phantomjs

Usage

require 'shrimp'
url     = 'http://www.google.com'
options = { :margin => "1cm"}
Shrimp::Phantom.new(url, options).to_pdf("~/output.pdf")

Configuration

Shrimp.configure do |config|

  # The path to the phantomjs executable
  # defaults to `where phantomjs`
  # config.phantomjs = '/usr/local/bin/phantomjs'

  # the default pdf output format
  # e.g. "5in*7.5in", "10cm*20cm", "A4", "Letter"
  # config.format           = 'A4'

  # the default margin
  # config.margin           = '1cm'

  # the zoom factor
  # config.zoom             = 1

  # the page orientation 'portrait' or 'landscape'
  # config.orientation      = 'portrait'

  # a temporary dir used to store tempfiles
  # config.tmpdir           = Dir.tmpdir

  # the default rendering time in ms
  # increase if you need to render very complex pages
  # config.rendering_time   = 1000

  # change the viewport size.  If you rendering pages that have
  # flexible page width and height then you may need to set this
  # to enforce a specific size
  # config.viewport_width     = 600
  # config.viewport_height    = 600

  # the timeout for the phantomjs rendering process in ms
  # this needs always to be higher than rendering_time
  # config.rendering_timeout  = 90000

  # maximum number of redirects to follow
  # by default Shrimp does not follow any redirects which means that
  # if the server responds with non HTTP 200 an error will be returned
  # config.max_redirect_count = 0

  # the path to a json configuration file for command-line options
  # config.command_config_file = "#{Rails.root.join('config', 'shrimp', 'config.json')}"
end

Command Configuration

{
    "diskCache": false,
    "ignoreSslErrors": false,
    "loadImages": true,
    "outputEncoding": "utf8",
    "webSecurity": true
}

Middleware

Shrimp comes with a middleware that allows users to get a PDF view of any page on your site by appending .pdf to the URL.

Middleware Setup

Non-Rails Rack apps

# in config.ru
require 'shrimp'
use Shrimp::Middleware

Rails apps

# in application.rb(Rails3) or environment.rb(Rails2)
require 'shrimp'
config.middleware.use Shrimp::Middleware

With Shrimp options

# options will be passed to Shrimp::Phantom.new
config.middleware.use Shrimp::Middleware, :margin => '0.5cm', :format => 'Letter'

With conditions to limit routes that can be generated in pdf

# conditions can be regexps (either one or an array)
config.middleware.use Shrimp::Middleware, {}, :only => %r[^/public]
config.middleware.use Shrimp::Middleware, {}, :only => [%r[^/invoice], %r[^/public]]

# conditions can be strings (either one or an array)
config.middleware.use Shrimp::Middleware, {}, :only => '/public'
config.middleware.use Shrimp::Middleware, {}, :only => ['/invoice', '/public']

# conditions can be regexps (either one or an array)
config.middleware.use Shrimp::Middleware, {}, :except => [%r[^/prawn], %r[^/secret]]

# conditions can be strings (either one or an array)
config.middleware.use Shrimp::Middleware, {}, :except => ['/secret']

Polling

To avoid deadlocks Shrimp::Middleware renders the pdf in a separate process retuning a 503 Retry-After response Header. you can setup the polling interval and the polling offset in seconds.

config.middleware.use Shrimp::Middleware, :polling_interval => 1, :polling_offset => 5

Caching

To avoid rendering the page on each request you can setup some the cache ttl in seconds

config.middleware.use Shrimp::Middleware, :cache_ttl => 3600, :out_path => "my/pdf/store"

Ajax requests

To include some fancy Ajax stuff with jquery


 var url = '/my_page.pdf'
 var statusCodes = {
      200: function() {
        return window.location.assign(url);
      },
      504: function() {
       console.log("Shit's being wired")
      },
      503: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        var wait;
        wait = parseInt(jqXHR.getResponseHeader('Retry-After'));
        return setTimeout(function() {
          return $.ajax({
            url: url,
            statusCode: statusCodes
          });
        }, wait * 1000);
      }
  }
  $.ajax({
    url: url,
    statusCode: statusCodes
  })

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request