generating pdf hangs on rails 4 using PDFkit gem

Question

I\'m able to download pdf file with:

curl google.com | wkhtmltopdf - test.pdf

so it means, wkhtmlpdf installation was successful.

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Answer 1

Setting config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://localhost" in development.rb actually didn't work for me. That is, the PDF generation would work, but then assets wouldn't come through when rendering HTML.

I followed the method here: http://jguimont.com/post/2627758108/pdfkit-and-its-middleware-on-heroku

and it worked like a charm for me. Hope this helps someone. Just throw assets.rb in config/intializers and you're good to go.