Creating PDFs in a Ruby on Rails application

• Prawn

  10 4,602 7.9 Ruby

  Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby

  

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.

• view_component

  74 3,148 9.0 Ruby

  A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.

  

In fact you can save any existing view as PDF, allowing you to reuse your current HTML and/or CSS framework. You can use Tailwind for your CSS or ViewComponent to display your components and print them to PDF.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Wicked Pdf

  6 3,516 7.0 Ruby

  PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails

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.

• Grover

  4 864 6.0 Ruby

  A Ruby gem to transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs using Google Puppeteer/Chromium

  

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.

• Tailwind CSS

  1,279 78,370 9.4 TypeScript

  A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

  

In fact you can save any existing view as PDF, allowing you to reuse your current HTML and/or CSS framework. You can use Tailwind for your CSS or ViewComponent to display your components and print them to PDF.

• prawn-markup

  1 63 4.0 Ruby

  Parse simple HTML markup to include in Prawn PDFs

  

There are gems to facilitate handling Prawn PDFs, e.g. prawn-markup which lets you add simple HTML snippets into Prawn-generated PDF.

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