I wanted to create PDFs for my rails application using wkhtml2pdf and wicked_pdf.
I downloaded and extracted wkhtml2pdf beta 4 and placed it in /usr/local/bin/wkhtml2pdf
I tried running it on a web site and it gave a nice result.
In my rails application (2.3.4) I installed wicked_pdf:
script/plugin install git://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf.git
script/generate wicked_pdf
Everything seemed to be ok.
inside script/console I run the following - (with the following output)
wp = WickedPdf.new
=># WickedPdf:0xb62f2c70 #exe_path="/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf"
HTML_DOCUMENT = "<html><body>Hello World</body></html>"
=> "<html><body>Hello World</body></html>"
pdf = wp.pdf_from_string HTML_DOCUMENT
=> "/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf - - -q"
=> "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
of course this isn't good. According to the test the result of my last command should start with "%pdf-1.4"
Any idea what I can do?
Having the same problem. Removed the -q option from the wicked_pdf.rb file on line 19 and then was able to get the proper string on the console.
=> "%PDF-1.4\n1 0 obj\n<<\n/Title ...
This also seems to have solved other problems. The PDF still didn't render correctly when using it from the web site - embedded font issue - on to the next issue now.
Hopefully this will work for you.
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I am using windows 10 to program ruby on rails 6 with the help of ruby installer. Everything works fine so far until... I use action text for rich text editor.
I followed this guide [https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/action_text_overview.html][1] and everything works. But when I attach an image to the text_area, after saving the image cannot be displayed.
When I open the image's url, I see this:
MiniMagick::Error in ActiveStorage::RepresentationsController#show
`magick mogrify -resize-to-limit [1024, 768] C:/Users/.../AppData/Local/Temp/ActiveStorage-5-20200716-3792-28u8ot.jpg` failed with error: mogrify: unrecognized option `-resize-to-limit' # error/mogrify.c/MogrifyImageCommand/6009.
if status != 0 && options.fetch(:whiny, MiniMagick.whiny)
fail MiniMagick::Error, "`#{command.join(" ")}` failed with error:\n#{stderr}"
end
Model: Product
title
description(action text - attach image in text_area)
Display in view: product.description ( attached image cannot be displayed )
Can anyone help me solve this problem?
Add gem 'image-processing' to your Gemfile and
run bundle install
Whenever I try to generate a pdf using to_file, the process will just hang, and when I stop the development server I get Errno::ENOENT (No such file or directory - path/to/pdf). However, I am able to render a pdf inline using to_pdf. I'm also able to generate PDFs from the command line in the same folder that I'm trying to generate them in with to_file.
I'm using Rails 3.2.12 and pdfkit 0.8.2. I've tried using wkhtmltopdf versions 0.9.6 through 0.12.4. I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.
Example from controller:
html = render_to_string(:action => "show.html.erb", :formats => :html)
kit.stylesheets << "{Rails.root}/app/assets/stylesheets/stylesheet1.css"
kit.stylesheets << "#{Rails.root}/vendor/assets/stylesheets/stylesheet2.css"
kit.to_file("#{Rails.root}/folder_to_write_to/generated_pdf.pdf")
Turns out the issue was the asset pipeline conflicting with wkhtmltopdf. Added config.threadsafe! to development.rb and it started working.
Another issue can be the default options passed. For example, when I left the default print_media_type option in place, found this message in the log:
The switch --print-media-type, is not support using unpatched qt, and will be ignored."
Only when I override that does it work for me, either in the initializer or like so:
PDFKit.new(html, {print_media_type: false})
The message says it'll be ignored, but it wasn't. It was causing the file to not get generated.
I'm asking about setting a default editor for Pry to use. I'm working on a Rails
app. I created a file named ".pryrc" immediately inside my working directory.
In this file, I wrote this line of code (based on what I read on Github :
Pry.config.editor = proc { |file, line| "sublime +#{line} #{file}" }
This doesn't seem to work. when I try the command ".sublime company.rb", I 'd get
this error:
Error: there was a problem executing system command: sublime company.rb
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong please?
Change the configuration to:
Pry.config.editor = proc { |file, line| "sublime #{file}:#{line}" }
You start the editor in Pry by using the edit command.
For example to open test.rb at line 30 use:
edit test.rb:30
See here for more details
For those who have the same problem as mine.Perhaps, you have trouble launching the editor even outside Pry. First thing, make sure to check if the sublime command exists in ur PATH. if not, you probably need to create a symlink between the command and the corresponding path to your app within /usr/local/bin. For more information, see here.
I am developing Rails 4 application where have to modify existing PDF file.
User can write some comments and click then comments write in existing PDF as well. For this, i used gem 'pdf-toolkit'
But i got below error:
Error invoking PDFTK
My Code:
my_pdf = PDF::Toolkit.open("Credit_One.pdf")
my_pdf.updated_at = Time.now # ModDate
my_pdf["SomeAttribute"] = "Some value"
my_pdf.save!
Where is wrong any one have a idea.
Thanks
I am trying to check if a file exists in my rails application.
I am running ruby 1.8.6 and rails 2.1.2 with windows XP.
So, the problem is that the FileTest.exists? method doesn't seem to be working. I have simplified the code to this point :
if FileTest.exists?("/images/header.jpg")
render :text => "yes"
else
render :text => "no <img src='/images/header.jpg' />"
end
If I do that the system displays "no" and then includes the image that displays correctly because /images/header.jpg exists.
I tried FileTest.exists?, FileTest.exist?, File.exists?, File.exist? and nothing seems to be working.
What am I doing wrong ?
Thanks
I'm guessing it's because you're asking whether a file "header.jpg" exists in a directory "images" off of the root directory for your system (which on Windows I'd assume is "c:\"). Try putting the full path (from the filesystem root) to the "/images" directory rather than the URL path.
In particular, as pointed out by #Brian, you should use:
FileTest.exists?(RAILS_ROOT + "/images/header.jpg") # < rails 3.0
FileTest.exists?(Rails.root + "/images/header.jpg") # >= rails 3.0
Add RAILS_ROOT to the filename that you're checking before calling exists?