It’s about more than 6 months i haven’t written any post Why ?

because recently join new organization, and can’t get much more time , we are working almost more than 10 to 12 hr day with messy code.So we are spending more time to  refactoring and optimizing code,and scaling application.😥

In my current organization we are generating various PDF report.We are using prawn but now we are switching to acts_as_flying_saucer.

So there are couple of challenges i have faced

1. XHTML code is not proper
2. Special character in html

Solution: Cleanup Html code

I am using tidy library clean up html code. By passing :clean => true it will cleanup html before generating PDF.

3. Send PDF as email or do some processing

Solution: Generate PDF on server and do some processing like attached to mail.

:send_to_client =>false It will generate pdf and return path of pdf file then do some processing.

4. Generate PDF from String,File,URL

:url – URl/String/File Path Now by passing URL or String or File Path PDF can be generated.

So couple of new feature is added to acts_as_flying_saucer is as follows

1)  Clean up  html by passing :clean=>true

2)  Generate pdf on server (locally) by passing :send_to_client=> false

3)  Fixed issue of non inline CSS issue.

4) Generate PDF from File,String,URL.

5)  More info about acts_as_flying_saucer you can visit wiki

6)  PDF can be generated from Rails,Sinatra,Ruby.