From: joviyach Date: 2009-08-25T11:05:13+09:00 Subject: Re: Possible to populate Adobe PDF using RoR? On Aug 24, 8:33 pm, Josh Cheek wrote: > [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] > > From your terminal, try > gem query -rn pdf > > That should give you a good place to start looking. > > If you are using RoR, you can already pull objects from your database (you > should be writing this code in the model). You can also set up a rake task > that loads the RoR environment (check out Ryan Bates' Railscast on ithttp://railscasts.com/episodes/66-custom-rake-tasks). To execute your code, > then, you can either run the rake task, if that method works best for you, > or you can interract with your code through the console, or through some MVC > structure you have defined, in a web browser. That might make for a nice > easy gui, if that is your plan, then you might check out the member and > collection routing options, depending on whether you're trying to write a > record or a class of records to the PDF, here is a good resource for thathttp://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html. > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:55 PM, joviyach wrote: > > I am kicking an idea around in my head right and I would really like > > to do this in RoR due to the speed and ease of deployment especially > > on the data collection end. Anyway, the application has to be able to > > pull data from a SQL database and populate Adobe PDF forms with the > > data. Anyone know if such a thing is possible right now with ROR? > > > Thanks, > > > Jim > > Thanks Josh. I am already running RoR on my test station and I have been using Heroku as well. To the others, sorry to have disturbed you with my question.