Why does PDFKit/wkhtmltopdf hang but renders PDF as expected when Rails app is killed?

Question

Background

After reading around it seemed to me that Prawn is out and wkhtmltopdf is in. It also seems like the PDFKit and wicked_pdf gems for Rails are the new co

Answer 1

The problem is with wkhtmltopdf itself, specifically, any version after 0.9.9. wkhtmltopdf hangs when run directly from the command-line.

Steps to correct:

brew uninstall wkhtmltopdf
cd /usr/local/Library/Formula/
git checkout 6e2d550 /usr/local/Library/Formula/wkhtmltopdf.rb
brew install wkhtmltopdf

Then verify the correct version is installed wkhtmltopdf --version which should yield wkhtmltopdf 0.9.9

Citations:

1. https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf/issues/110
2. http://wearepandr.com/blog/article/homebrew-and-installing-old-package-versions#blog_nav