Mission: Turn any rails view into PDF.
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Assuming you have a table posts.
Gemfile
gem 'wicked_pdf' gem "wkhtmltopdf-binary", group: :development gem "wkhtmltopdf-heroku", group: :production config/initializers/wicked_pdf.rb
# WickedPDF Global Configuration # # Use this to set up shared configuration options for your entire application. # Any of the configuration options shown here can also be applied to single # models by passing arguments to the `render :pdf` call. # # To learn more, check out the README: # # https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf/blob/master/README.md WickedPdf.config ||= {} WickedPdf.config.merge!({ layout: "pdf.html.erb", orientation: "Landscape", lowquality: true, zoom: 1, dpi: 75 }) app/views/layouts/pdf.html.erb
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> <meta charset="utf-8"/> <%= wicked_pdf_stylesheet_link_tag "pdf" %> </head> <body onload="number_pages"> <div id="header"> <!--= wicked_pdf_image_tag 'thumbnail.png', height: "30", width: "auto" --> </div> <div id="content"> <%= yield %> </div> </body> </html> app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
def index @posts = Post.all.order(created_at: :desc) respond_to do |format| format.html format.pdf do render pdf: "Posts", page_size: "A4", template: "posts/post.pdf.erb" end end end app/views/posts/index.html.erb
<%= link_to "PDF", posts_path(format: :pdf), class: 'btn btn-primary' %> app/views/posts/post.pdf.erb
Date of extract: <%= Date.today %> <br> Posts count: <%= @posts.count %> <br> <table style="width:100%"> <thead> <tr> <th>id <th>title</th> <th>content</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <% @posts.each do |post| %> <%= content_tag :tr, id: dom_id(post), class: dom_class(post) do %> <td><%= post.id %></td> <td><%= post.title %></td> <td><%= post.content %></td> <% end %> <% end %> </tbody> </table> app/assets/stylesheets/pdf.scss
table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } That’s it!
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