Pdf reports generation

casper_the_ghost · July 16, 2007, 12:03pm

Hello,

I tried a lot for looking at various methods to generate PDF reports
in ROR.

But, i didn’t understand anything.

Can,anyone please tell me which is the best method to do this.

Thanks,

regards,
Avinash.

casper_the_ghost · July 16, 2007, 1:01pm

What I did :

Send XML to a Java servlet which returns a PDF file.

In the Java, i used the amazing,unbeatable and blisteringly fast iText
library to create the PDF. This works great for me.

Another option would be to use the iText library with JRuby.

Thanks

Chris

casper_the_ghost · July 16, 2007, 4:26pm

Check out acts_as_reportable, which is part of the Ruby Reports
library. It’s an excellent little piece of code.

–Jeremy

Thanks,

regards,
Avinash.

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