Generate PDF from Rails

Question

The Ruby On Rails Wiki lists a couple of libraries that facilitate PDF generation in Rails. I need to print out address labels (in letter f

Answer 1

Prawn is the way to go. Now with prawn-labels that is really easy to do.

Check out the project's README here:

https://github.com/jordanbyron/prawn-labels#readme

This is a super simple example being used in a Rails controller. Don't forget to add gem 'prawn-labels' to your Gemfile.

names = %w{Jordan Kelly Greg Bob}

labels = Prawn::Labels.render(names, :type => "Avery5160") do |pdf, name|
  pdf.text name
end

send_data labels, :filename => "names.pdf", :type => "application/pdf"