Rails: Convert HTML to PDF? [closed]

Answer 1

Not specific to Ruby, but the best solution I've found to this is the open source HTMLDOC.

Answer 2

The project may have stagnated, but Pisa (aka XHTML2PDF) is a Python lib which does CSS+HTML to PDF. used it in a (low-traffic) Rails app a while back by driving it as a commandline tool -- worked pretty well.

Answer 3

The closest thing I found as a "solution" to this is by using JRuby and then using The Flying Saucer Project. I just wish that it would get ported over to Ruby so it could be a native solution. God I wish I was better at Java.

Answer 4

If you want to have really good quality (think, proper layout/CSS etc) you need to create a process embedding a real webbrowser rendering it offscreen and printing it via PDF printer driver.

Answer 5

The gem, WickedPDF, does exactly that.

Answer 6

• There is RPDF in which you describe your pdf's in as a view.
• There also is RTEX which uses (La)TeX to generates pdf's.