acts_as_flying_saucer on Rails 3.1 and Heroku

Just quick post how to use acts_as_flying_saucer with rails 3.1 and Heroku. I was testing acts_as_flying_saucer with rails 3.1.It is working fine so far. but when i have added external style sheet it was hanging on dev mode. and later on i figure out it is external style sheet causing an issue. So i precomplied css and then try to generate pdf it is working. Now it is time to test on heroku. I am using cedar stack and ruby

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Routes Testing in Rails

Everyone is familiar with routes in rails been a Rails developer we add and edit config/routes.rb many time throughout our application.But let get it straight how many of us actually write test for routes that we define.I guess hardly anyone does I too used to avoid writing it until I found out how easy and fun it is to write route test. So let me show you A Routes Test has basically 3 parts 1. assert_generate 2. assert_recognizes 3. assert_routing

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Generate Bookmark for PDF using act_as_flying_saucer

In previous article we have seen that how pdf is generated  using act_as_flying_saucer plugin. Following code snippets is used for generating pdf with bookmark . <bookmark name=”section 1″  href=”#section_1″> tag is used to generate bookmark. which contains name attribute for displaying name of bookmark. href attribute is used for navigation purpose. <bookmark> tag can be nested so it can be used for generating nested bookmark <bookmark> tag is wrapper with <bookmarks> tag. This tag placed in html header. Now in

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Password protected pdf in rails using act_as_flying_saucer

Pdf with password protected in rails In previous article we have seen that how pdf is generated  using act_as_flying_saucer plugin. Now  act_flying_saucer  has added support for  password protected pdf. To generate PDF with password protection just pass :password=>”xxx” to render_pdf method. You can install act_as_flying_saucer plugin For  further details you can visit article or visit http://github.com/amardaxini/act_as_flying_saucer

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Vertical table in rails

In this article i have just taken a short example describing vertical table,and its implementation using rails. When table has no fixed column it has dynamic fields .data is not stored on separate column but data stores in vertical fashion. For implementing vertical table table has mainly 2 columns key and value pair.key is like database column name and value contains actual data. Lets take an e.g Consider website in which it contains various products and its comparison ,searching and

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Static pages in rails

Static site using rails As we know rails is mainly used for dynamic website.we can also display static web pages or we can deploy full static website using rails. The following code can help us to display static pages. Step 1:-Create Rails project Step 2:-Generate StaticPage Controller Step 3:- Create StaticPage Class in Model Step 4:- Add following line in routes.rb Here we are passing filename as parameter which is static file name. This will generate url as http://sitename/page/static_filename.html Step

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Generate PDF Using Rails and Flying Saucer

Rails Pdf Plugin act_as_flying_saucer There are various ways to generate pdf documents in any language.In Rails we can use prawn library ,HtmlDoc,PrinceXml and many other library,using their api we can generate pdf document.Basically the primary goal is converting HTML web pages to PDF Document,without much changing existing CSS and HTML. Using the Flying Saucer Project we can achieve this.we can convert HTML + CSS to PDF documents without much changing HTML and CSS. It also support CSS 2 and many

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Rails Observer

Observer classes respond to lifecycle callbacks to implement trigger-like behavior outside the original class. This is a great way to reduce the clutter that normally comes when the model class is burdened with functionality that doesn‘t pertain to the core responsibility of the class. In my project,I have to track certain action (create and update) of user on particular model basically i am maintaining some kind of log, or audit trails.In my application eventlog model has attribute user and body.

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