After the installation (see more) I found that this plugin is not working very well :(
and now I’m back to my in-controller ugly code.
If you’re using the gems plugin with rails 1.2 and the updated ruby-gems you might experience some problems, here’s the fixed rake task for the gems plugin.
I hoped to have a neat (=lazy) solution with other plugins like RFPDF, but I’ve found no table support there. So I ended up with PDF::Writer, and now my lazyness brings me to use a plugin with view-support instead of hardcoding the PDF output in the controler (pretty ugly).
As I found few docs about RailsPDF plugin, here’s the tip:
to install this plugin by the conventional way type this (Hey! Slashes are in win-style):
ruby script\plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/railspdfplugin/railspdf
RailsPDF depends on PDF::Writer (which in turn depends on transaction-simple and color-tools)
so my advice is to use the great gems plugin:
ruby script\plugin install http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/gems/
gem install pdf-writer transaction-simple color-tools --include-dependencies
rake gems:freeze GEM=pdf-writer
rake gems:freeze GEM=transaction-simple
rake gems:freeze GEM=color-tools
Ok folks, that’s all, this way you’re not dependent on gems installed on the deploy server.
