Rails PDF Plugin
This is one the the most simple and useful plugins you can use. To get started you will need to install the PDF::Writer gem.
gem install pdf-writer
Install the Rails PDF Plugin.
script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/railspdfplugin/railspdf
To create a PDF document for an action, you need to change the action’s view extension from rhtml to rpdf. In the rpdf view you can insert PDF::Writer code. For example, to create a Hello, World PDF use just these two lines of code in the rpdf view:
pdf.select_font "Times-Roman"
pdf.text "Hello, #{@name}.",
:font_size => 72, :justification => :center
Artima has a great article that covers in great detail the PDF::Writer library. With PDF::Writer you can create PDF documents with embedded images, business charts, tables, etc. With this plugin you can create PDF reports and documents from rails applications. You can create a PDF document for all of your blog posts.
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