Generate a PDF from an existing HTML

Rails
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Hi everyone,

I am having a lot of troubles with this issue the past few days and I
would
like any suggestions to try to solve this.

I want to generate a PDF that has a really big report table from a given
HTML (I am not using wicked_pdf plugin because the only thing I want
from
the HTML is that table. that being said I preferred to use the prawnto
plugin).

So what I am trying to do is parse the HTML using Nokogiri. I did
something
like this in my reports controller: @doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("
http://localhost/reports/1")). The problem is that if I do this it
gives me
a Timeout error. I can parse almost any webpages that are not inside my
own
project.

Well, my questions are: There is a better approach than doing this? Is
there
someway that I can use open-uri library to open my own project?

I know that I could use the prawnto to generate a table for the report,
but
the thing is that there are a lot of kinds of reports and for each one
there
is a kind of calculation. So I am trying to bypass this by parsing the
HTML.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Marco Antonio

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You may need to give a relative path perhaps.

On 20 May 2010 10:44, Marco Antonio F. [email protected] wrote:

So what I am trying to do is parse the HTML using Nokogiri. I did something
is a kind of calculation. So I am trying to bypass this by parsing the HTML.
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