SD Ruby, One of my clients is a charitable foundation that generates lots of letters to donors thanking them for their donations. I've migrated their old system from an Access database to a Rails app. I'm looking for a good replacement for how they used to generate letters to their donors.
Previously they'd do a Word mail merge on the results of an Access query. That's a rather lengthy process to generate letters one at a time and I'm working on a much more "point and click" solution for them. I generate PDFs in the app using Prawn and that works fine for the accounting and other tabular type reports they need that don't have to be customized. It's a klutzy approach for form letters that need customization. The "letter generator" I envision would let them create new letter templates as required and keep them in the database. There would be some sort of templating system, perhaps like Liquid, that lets them easily add select active record model fields to the letters, just like Word's mail merge does. Finally, the letters would be generated in PDF format. Can anyone point out a potential solution to this in the form of a gem or plugin? How about re-purposing something like a CMS? This seems like a pretty common need so I'm surprised my googling == nil. I'm not averse to rolling my own for this feature but figured I'd check with the smart folks here first before I headed in that direction. Thanks for any advice on this subject. Cheers, Chris -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
