From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-08-25T09:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible to populate Adobe PDF using RoR?

On Monday 24 August 2009 05:55:05 pm joviyach wrote:
> I am kicking an idea around in my head right and I would really like
> to do this in RoR

...stop.

Go to the Ruby on Rails group:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk

Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

> Anyway, the application has to be able to
> pull data from a SQL database and populate Adobe PDF

Why Adobe? PDF is now an open standard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

Now, if you wanted to know how to do it in Ruby, here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/kngh34