PrawnCreate PDFs with Ruby

Tom Klaasen

• Co-founder of (http://10to1.be)

• @tomklaasen

• http://tomklaasen.net

Prawn

• Prawn takes the pain out of generating beautiful printable documents, while still remaining fast, tiny and nimble.

History

• Gregory Brown: “What if I could just do open source for a while, non-commercially?”

• http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/id_love_to_quit_my_job_sort_of.html

Goals

• The features you need, without all the complexity

• Built in support for UTF-8

• Easy image embedding

• Flexible table drawing

• Simplified content positioning

Code Examples

“Hello, World”

Render a book

Render a book (2)

Render a book (3)

• PDF: 84 pages

• “Took 6.582318 to generate.”

Tables

Tables (2)

Bounding boxes

Bounding boxes (2)

The Future

• Now: alpha

• Project is gaining traction quickly

• First stable production release: June 2009

How to get it

• gem install prawn

References

• http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/

• http://advent2008.hackruby.com/past/2008/12/17/awn_and_the_future_of_ruby_pdf_generation

Thank You

• tom@10to1.be

• @tomklaasen

• http://tomklaasen.net