Prawn Renderer¶ ↑

Prawn Renderer is a Renderer plugin for Rails that lets you create PDF views. All you have to do is setup a respond_to for pdf in your controller’s action and then create a view file with the extension .pdf.prawn.

The main difference between this and prawnto is that you have access to your normal controller instance variables like a normal rails view. Also you don’t put ‘pdf.*’ for all the pdf commands.

Installation¶ ↑

./script/plugin install http://github.com/Dawnthorn/prawn-renderer.git

Here’s an example action for a controller:

def show
  @invoice = Invoice.find(params[:id])
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html
    format.pdf
  end
end

Here’s the corresponding view in views/invoices/show.pdf.prawn:

text("Hello #{@invoice.id}")