This gem provides a framework for rendering PDFs. The API is very similar to ActionMailer.

Author

Thomas Kadauke - tkadauke (at) imedo.de

Copyright

Copyright © 2010 Thomas Kadauke

Licence

MIT

Git

github.com/tkadauke/pdf_renderer

• Rails >= 2.3.0

• pdflatex in your PATH

Install from rubygems.org

$ gem install pdf_renderer

Or install from source:

$ git clone git://github.com/tkadauke/pdf_renderer.git
$ cd pdf_renderer
$ rake install

To use PdfRenderer, subclass PdfRenderer::Base like this:

class BillRenderer < PdfRenderer::Base
  helper :pdf, :bill

  def bill(model)
    body :bill => model
  end
end

Then put your LaTeX code with ERB tags in app/views/bill_renderer/bill.pdf.erb.

The LaTeX part of PdfRenderer is loosely based on rtex.