On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]>wrote:
> David Kahn wrote in post #974766: > > 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 :( > > Prawn markup is easy enough. What the hell is wrong with learning a > DSL? Both with this and with Cucumber, you say "learning a DSL" like > it's a bad thing. > You remember :) My thing is that if I can hammer out an html doc in 10 minutes, how much trial and error am I going to go through to get it out in a new DSL? It's just a question of where I (and clients) are going to benefit. > > Anyway, if you use prawn_format, you can control Prawn with HTML, though > I don't know how well that works. > Interesting... but looks like is no longer being maintained after Prawn 0.7: https://github.com/sandal/prawn-format > > > > > Wkhtmltopdf starting to look a lot happier right now! > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > > -- > Posted via http://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]<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.
