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
- XHTML code is not proper
- 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.