Re: Get a PDF every 24 hours

[Andre Joseph Cubeta]

Hi,

Well you can do some of these to solve your problem.

- cronjob task for your rails app to run the script every 24 hours 

http://www.generateit.net/cron-job/

- in your Prawn document you can specify the path of which you can .render the file. May it be in the /tmp directory 

or you can create /private/assets/reports/pdf directory in your app to store your PDFs

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9467989/rails-3-render-prawn-pdf-in-actionmailer

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9708884/rails-prawn-how-do-i-use-rails-helpers-inside-a-prawn-class

- On your app you just call the PDF by calling the file define in your controller class.

- For Pie chart, Prawn only support image charting. I used Google Chart for image charting as Prawn only supports .png, .jpg .gif  images. You may play around

the google image chart and replace its values from your own styles.

http://imagecharteditor.appspot.com

http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/docs/0.11.1/Prawn/Images.html

On Apr 28, 2013, at 3:31 AM, Laura-Mihaela Craciun <laura.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm new to Rails and I got Prawn to output a PDF file in my application. I've been wondering if it is possible to use Prawn to output  different PDF files every 24 hours and save all of them on the website so the users can access them at any time. Also, my PDF file should output a pie chart, any suggestions on how to get the pie chart to work? I've tried various things but nothing worked. I'd be very grateful if any of you could help me out! Thanks very much indeed!

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[Laura-Mihaela Craciun]

 Thank you ever so much for your help! I got it to work!