On Aug 3, 6:43 pm, Dylan Mccarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > We're working on a project on a Windows machine that will use PDFKit to > convert an HTML page to a PDF. I have followed all the instructions at > GitHub (http://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit), for installing wkhtmltopdf and > PDFKit, then creating the config file in 'config/initializers/pdfkit.rb' > and then finally, setting up Middleware for Rails apps in > 'config/environment.rb'. We have done all of the following and when we > run the server and append the '.pdf' extension, we receive a 500 > Internal Server Error. Upon inspection of the console, we find a fork() > function unimplemented error. The console output is listed below:
Ruby on windows doesn't have fork. You might try rewriting the bit that uses kernel.open to use IO.popen instead Fred > --------------- > /!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Tue Aug 03 08:28:19 -0700 2010 > Status: 500 Internal Server Error > fork() function is unimplemented on this machine > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdfkit-0.4.3/lib/pdfkit/pdfkit.rb:60:in > `open' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdfkit-0.4.3/lib/pdfkit/pdfkit.rb:60:in > `to_pdf' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdfkit-0.4.3/lib/pdfkit/middleware.rb:23: in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.8/lib/action_controller/st > ring_coercion.rb:25:in > `call' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/head.rb:9:in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:24: in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.8/lib/action_controller/pa > rams_parser.rb:15:in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.8/lib/action_controller/se > ssion/cookie_store.rb:99:in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.8/lib/action_controller/fa > ilsafe.rb:26:in > `call' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:in > `call' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:in > `synchronize' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.8/lib/action_controller/di > spatcher.rb:114:in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.8/lib/action_controller/re > loader.rb:34:in > `run' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.8/lib/action_controller/di > spatcher.rb:108:in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/rails/rack/static.rb:31:i n > `call' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:47:in > `call' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:41:in > `each' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:41:in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/rails/rack/log_tailer.rb: > 17:in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/content_length.rb:13: in > `call' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/chunked.rb:15:in > `call' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/handler/mongrel.rb:67 > :in > `process' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/lib/mongrel.rb: > 159:in > `process_client' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/lib/mongrel.rb: > 158:in > `each' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/lib/mongrel.rb: > 158:in > `process_client' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/lib/mongrel.rb: > 285:in > `run' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/lib/mongrel.rb: > 285:in > `initialize' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/lib/mongrel.rb: > 285:in > `new' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/lib/mongrel.rb: > 285:in > `run' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/lib/mongrel.rb: > 268:in > `initialize' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/lib/mongrel.rb: > 268:in > `new' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/lib/mongrel.rb: > 268:in > `run' > > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/handler/mongrel.rb:38 > :in > `run' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/commands/server.rb:111 > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in > `gem_original_require' > C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in > `require' > ./script/server:3 > -e:2:in `load' > -e:2 > -------- > If anyone could help us get around this problem to be able to convert an > HTML page to pdf, we would greatly appreciate it. > > Thanks in advance, > -dwmcc > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
