Wicked Pdf VS Grover

Compare Wicked Pdf vs Grover and see what are their differences.

Wicked Pdf

PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails (by mileszs)

Grover

A Ruby gem to transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs using Google Puppeteer/Chromium (by Studiosity)
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Wicked Pdf Grover
6 4
3,515 826
- 7.5%
7.1 6.0
16 days ago 10 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Wicked Pdf

Posts with mentions or reviews of Wicked Pdf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-24.
  • Working with PDFs in Ruby
    4 projects | dev.to | 24 Oct 2023
    We’ll start with the WickedPDF gem, which is powered by the wkhtmltopdf command-line library.
  • Creating PDFs in a Ruby on Rails application
    6 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2021
    You have a few options when trying to create a PDF in a Rails environment. Prawn and Wicked PDF have been around for quite a while. I have been using both gems and they work fine. However, they have a few limitations that can make it difficult to handle more complex PDFs. I recently discovered Grover, which can remediate some of this inflexibility in creating PDFs.
  • Generate PDF with gem wicked_pdf
    2 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2021
    # WickedPDF Global Configuration # # Use this to set up shared configuration options for your entire application. # Any of the configuration options shown here can also be applied to single # models by passing arguments to the `render :pdf` call. # # To learn more, check out the README: # # https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf/blob/master/README.md WickedPdf.config ||= {} WickedPdf.config.merge!({ layout: "pdf.html.erb", orientation: "Landscape", lowquality: true, zoom: 1, dpi: 75 })
  • Converting HTML to PDF using Rails
    5 projects | dev.to | 7 Jun 2021
    A couple of popular gems to convert HTML to PDF in Rails are PDFKit and WickedPDF. They both use a command line utility called wkhtmltopdf under the hood; which uses WebKit to render a PDF from HTML.
  • Gerando PDF com a gem wicked_pdf no Rails 6
    3 projects | dev.to | 24 Apr 2021
  • 20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2021
    Thanks for sharing - it takes a lot to share these sort of personal experiences. I've definitely been there, too.

    Aside from all the good and valid comments about reducing scope and shipping an MVP, I'd like to raise another point which may be controversial (or even wrong), but still worth raising:

    Would it have been different if you had used Rails? A few of the problems you mention (rich text editing, validation, and to some extend, pdf exports) are very easily solved in Rails. Take rich text editing: It's literally a couple minutes to use ActionText. Or validations / forms, there's really not much work to do. PDF exports are also not too hard via wicked_pdf [1] if you're okay with fixing some formatting quirks later on.

    I've seen both worlds by writing tons of JS / React code myself, and at that time (2016-2018) those problems were almost an order of magnitude more time-costly to implement in SPAs. I remember react-router.. not great memories.

    Of course, all the points reducing MVP scope still hold, yadda yadda, but.. if you could have had all those features (nearly) for free, would you be at another stage now? Who knows.

    [1] https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf

Grover

Posts with mentions or reviews of Grover. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-26.
  • Creating PDFs in a Ruby on Rails application
    6 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2021
    You have a few options when trying to create a PDF in a Rails environment. Prawn and Wicked PDF have been around for quite a while. I have been using both gems and they work fine. However, they have a few limitations that can make it difficult to handle more complex PDFs. I recently discovered Grover, which can remediate some of this inflexibility in creating PDFs.
  • Has anyone tried Grover to generate PDF files on Heroku?
    2 projects | /r/rails | 16 Aug 2021
    I am looking for a PDF generation tool for a Rails project. I have looked Prawn, Wicked and PDFKit, but Grover seems to be the most easy to use. The only thing concerns me is: in order to run Grover on Heroku, I will have to add 2 additional build packs (one for node.js and one for puppeteer). Can someone share their experience on how will the extra build packs affect performance on Heroku? Because I really do not want to slow the app down. My use case is a styled HTML property list that will be mostly 2 pages long.
  • Converting HTML to PDF using Rails
    5 projects | dev.to | 7 Jun 2021
    The gem I recommend is called Grover. It uses Puppeteer and Chromium to "print" an HTML page into a PDF. So your PDF will look exactly how your page looks in Google Chrome's print preview. This will also allow you to reuse CSS from your app rather than having to write specific CSS just for your PDF exports.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Wicked Pdf and Grover you can also consider the following projects:

Pdfkit - A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf

Prawn - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby

Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

CombinePDF - A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more...

HexaPDF - Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby

Webpacker - Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails

puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome

WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)

Shrimp - a phantomjs based pdf renderer

Wisepdf - Wkhtmltopdf wrapper done right