How to generate a PDF from html.erb file

Rails
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Hello friends,
I have a task in which i need to generate a pdf file from the html.erb
file.
and seriously i don’t have any clue. So pleas help me out…

Thanks
abhishek

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On 25 Aug 2008, at 13:42, Abhishek shukla wrote:

I have a task in which i need to generate a pdf file from the
html.erb file. and seriously i don’t have any clue. So pleas help me
out…

Be prepared to shell out quite a bit of money for the exorbant license
fee, but:
http://sublog.subimage.com/articles/2007/05/29/html-css-to-pdf-using-ruby-on-rails

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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Looks like maybe a job for PHP which has a nice class library for
doing PDF… Maybe somebody could port it to Rails?

~DC

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On Aug 25, 1:42 pm, “Abhishek shukla” [email protected] wrote:

Hello friends,
I have a task in which i need to generate a pdf file from the html.erb file.
and seriously i don’t have any clue. So pleas help me out…

Thanks
abhishek

Have a look at
http://code.google.com/p/cnruby/wiki/RailsPluginActiveFPDF. I have
no experience using it, but it looks up to date and the templates are
ok (as far as pdf generation goes…), e.g. <http://
cnruby.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rails-plugins/active_fpdf/app/views/
pages/pdfs/show-06.rfpdf>.

Another option is to generate LaTeX documents using erb and post-
process these using pdflatex. Should be doable in less than 50 lines
of ruby, but IMO not practical unless you’re comfortable with LaTeX.

Isak