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-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

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