Thanks Nick, Yeah, I will probably just head down that Net::HTTP route. I am actually using a program called ReportMan to generate the pdfs, and I already have the routes setup to send back the pdf. This will be a daily con-job run at 9am, to send the report to a bunch of clients. So I'm not worried about the load on the server (it takes about 3 seconds to generate). But I figured using ActionController I can send a simple HTTP get request and get information back in response, but oh well :)
On Feb 4, 2008 1:51 PM, Nick Zadrozny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Adam, interesting question. > > Of course, there's Net::HTTP which is actually quite easy to use. > > http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html > > But is there any particular reason you need to send this request through > an entire HTTP Get request? Maybe you need to run this through some kind of > template to format the report, but if that action is running locally, then > presumably you can render it directly from right there in the mailer. That > will save you from blocking one of your Rails processes and the overhead of > an HTTP request. > > I'm not sure how exactly you're generating your PDF. If you're using, say, > PDF::Writer, just use it directly to load and render your show.rpdftemplate. > I've never done dynamic PDF generation so I don't know if that's a > trivial task, but it's worth checking out. > > -- > Nick Zadrozny • beyondthepath.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list sdruby@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
