GoStatic

GoStatic uses the shell utility wkhtmltoimage to serve a PDF file to a user from HTML. In other words, rather than dealing with a PDF generation DSL of some sort, you simply write an HTML view as you would normally, then let Wicked take care of the hard stuff.

GoStatic has been verified to work on Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2; Rails 2 and Rails 3

First, be sure to install wkhtmltoimage version 0.10.0.rc2. This plugin relies on streams to communicate with wkhtmltoimage.

More information about wkhtmltoimage could be found here.

Next:

script/plugin install git://github.com/lleirborras/go_static.git
script/generate go_static

or add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'go_static'

class ThingsController < ApplicationController
  def show
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.png do
        render :png => "file_name"
      end
    end
  end
end

class ThingsController < ApplicationController
  def show
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.png do
        render :png                            => 'file_name',
               :disposition	                   => 'attachment'                 # default 'inline'                   
      end
    end
  end
end

By default, it will render without a layout (:layout => false) and the template for the current controller and action.