rails 3 and PDFkit

Question

I\'m trying to follow this tutorial.

When I\'m adding .pdf to my url it does nothing. My controller has:

respond_to :html, :pdf.
         


        

Answer 1

Thanks to another stack overflow answer I got part of solution.

This works:

html = 'Toto de combats'
@pdf = PDFKit.new(html)

send_data @pdf.to_pdf, :filename => "whatever.pdf",
                  :type => "application/pdf",
                  :disposition  => "attachement"

You can replace attachement by inline, so the pdf is displayed in your browser.

In the stack overflow answer I spoke about (I don't remember the link), the .to_pdf was missing, but is mandatory. Otherwise PDF reader doesn't recognize it.

I'm trying to get this work with a .pdf url.

Edit 3:

My problem with .pdf urls is solved. known issue with rails 3.1, but google was unable to find them.

explanation : explanation

Workaround (hadn't tryied yet). workaround