To create the Invoice model, navigate to the root of your project from the command line and type: # command line -> generate Invoice Model Our demo application will only have two models: Invoice and InvoiceItem.
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Alternatively, you could use a commercial PDF generation library (like PDFTron PDF SDK ). The downside is you'll need time to wrap your head around its rendering model, and learn its DSL (Domain Specific Language). It is reasonably performant and uses a X,Y coordinate system for placing elements on a page. Instead, Prawn is a popular open source library that uses Ruby to generate PDFs. If you're looking for more granular control over PDF output, wkhtmltopdf may not be the best. The source code is available in our repo rails-generate-pdf. The application lists a series of sample invoices that can be previewed in the browser, and then converted to PDF. This approach is ideal if you don't need a publishing workflow or precise control over page output.įor the purpose of this tutorial, I've made a simple demo application on Heroku to show you what we'll be building. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for Rails PDF generation by using wkhtmltopdf, an open source CLI for rendering HTML into PDF from standard Rails view and style code.
The best approach for generating PDFs in Rails really depends on the types of PDFs you need to generate.
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