On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice posts! I wish you had written them back when I was experimenting. > > I don't remember all the details of the problems I ran into. Prawn has > a different language (not HTML) and has terrible diagnostic messages > and documentation, so you can change a small thing and suddenly have > no output and just have to experiment until you figure out what it's > doing. >
Timely thread... I was planning to implement Prawn today on an new project and not use wkhtmltopdf.... but oh god, I have to learn another DSL :( Wkhtmltopdf starting to look a lot happier right now! > > I don't remember exactly why I decided to bypass the wkhtmltopdf-based > gems, but I remember that some code that didn't output what I expected > in the gem worked fine when I just called wkhtmltopdf directly. > > I completely agree with the pain of installing. I'd say the first > thing to do is write a really simple webpage and pass it to > wkhtmltopdf on your development machine and your server. Use a couple > different fonts and more than one page's worth, and perhaps some > unusual css. > > > directly)... anyhow, I did write a couple blog posts on the subject which > > maybe would be helpful: > > > > > http://blog.structuralartistry.com/post/2316402105/using-wkhtmltopdf-with-ruby-and-rails > > > http://blog.structuralartistry.com/post/2327213260/installing-wkhtmltopdf-on-ubuntu-server > > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
