153 - PDFs With Prawn”

ASCIIcasts - “Episode 153 - PDFs With Prawn”:

showed how to generate PDFs with the PDF::Writer gem. That is still a good way to generate PDF files, but there is now a much newer gem called Prawn available and all the cool kids are using that. Prawn is a very fast Ruby PDF generator that is installed as as gem, but it isn’t specifically targeted towards Rails. There is a Rails plugin called Prawnto , however, that makes it easier to work with Prawn in Rails. It adds a new template handler class that will process any views with a .prawn extension, so we can generate PDF files in the same way we generate any other file format.

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