Rails gem for easily managing documents, converting them from a format to another, and merging data into ODF templates.

Documentalist assembles various moving parts that are necessary to perform the actual conversions, you can run run the documentalist:backends:checks task to see if these dependencies are met on your system, if it isn’t the case it will give you some tips on how to fix it.

Documentalist.convert('/home/somefile.doc', :to => '/home/someotherfile.pdf')

Require the gem in your Rails or Ruby application and you should be good to go !