Rails, Prawn - PDF show up in browser & etc

Question

I\'m trying to understand the Prawn pdf gem.

I was able to make it generate a pdf. Every gem in the gemfile included:

gem \'mysql\', \'~> 2.8.1\'
         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

 def index
  pdf = Prawn::Document.new
  pdf.text "Hello World"
  send_data pdf.render, :filename => "x.pdf", :type => "application/pdf"
 end

That said, for anything but a trivial PDF you will probably want to generate it outside the controller somewhere.