Rupdf - Simple Ruby PDF Generator Author: Alastair Brunton Company: Iformis (http://www.iformis.com) Blog Post: http://scoop.cheerfactory.co.uk/2007/12/15/rupdf-simple-ruby-pdf-rails-plugin/ ========================================= Simple PDF reporting rails plugin built on top of ruport. Requires Ruport gem install ruport This plugin provides a simple method of generating pdfs. Please refer to the API Documentation in rdoc/ to see the methods available. This is designed to render pdfs with a layout comprising of a header, body and a footer. If you need to perform more complicated pdf rendering operation please refer to the API Documentation for pdf-writer. The API docs for ruport will also be useful if you are involved in presenting tabular data from activerecord. You can access the pdf_writer object through your class. You should extend a class from the Rupdf:Base class and call the define_variables, define_header, define_body and define_footer classes. Example programming code along with how to call it is supplied in the examples directory. Have a look at test_controller for how to call it from within the application flow. For more information please refer to the tutorial online at: http://scoop.cheerfactory.co.uk/2007/12/15/rupdf-simple-ruby-pdf-rails-plugin/ Please not that at the moment this is compatible with Ruport 1.2.3 and not the newest version. gem install ruport -v1.2.3