gem provided javascripts

[mileszs]

gem provided javascripts

[michaelschapira]

I am closing this one cause not clear and irrelevant.

[unixmonkey]

It depends if it outputs relative or absolute pathed urls or inlines the css & javascript.

In your controller do this:
render :pdf => 'map', :show_as_html => true

Then you can right-click and view source to get the exact javascript and css paths you need. Then you can either hardcode them into your pdf view

If that doesn't work, there's a patch you can make to wicked_pdf demonstrated here:
#1

That involves creating a method "externals_to_absolute_paths", and then wrapping the pdf creation with that method to change it right before its handed off to wkhtmltopdf.

Let me know how it goes!

[michaelschapira]

Thanks man, I've done what you recommend with the viewing source, and I tried a few things. Finally, I managed to make it work manually:
I render the page with the ?debug=1 flag, and render it manually through the command line with wkhtmltopdf. I am able to have it rendered (including the map) with the '--javascript-delay 3000' flag on. Apparently, the --redirect-delay is not supported with 0.10.2
Unfortunately I am not able to use this flag with wicked_pdf did you implement it?

Thanks again for your code and help :)

[unixmonkey]

redirect-delay should be supported. The code is in the option parser to support it specifically.

render :pdf => 'some_pdf', :redirect_delay => 3000

Please let me know if this helps.

[michaelschapira]

redirect-delay is supported, but does not make the job.
that's what I have in my controller :

def pdfize
render :pdf => "my_pdf", :show_as_html => params[:debug].present?, :layout => "pdf", :redirect_delay => 3000
end

when I make the call the pdfize action (http://host/obj/2/2.pdf), I don't get a pdf in the borwser like if nothing was generated.
If I remove the :redirect_delay option, a pdf is generated without the javascript part.

Now, let move on the command line.
wkhtmltopdf -s A4 --enable-javascript --javascript-delay 3000 "http://192.168.0.251:9080/prospects/2/2.pdf?debug=1" test.pdf

It does generate the pdf, I can download it and the javascript part is there and formated as expected.

Does it make any sense to you ?

[unixmonkey]

I have just verified that redirect_delay works just fine for me. I set the delay to be a full minute, and at the end of the minute it rendered.

I'm using wicked_pdf 0.7.0, and the wkhtmltopdf-binary gem version 0.9.5.1

If you run this in development mode with script/server or mongrel, when you request a pdf, a log of the wkhtmltopdf command string generated is printed to stdout. Check that out to see if it is doing what you mean for it to.

[michaelschapira]

OK! Well I installed wkhtmltopdf on my system not as a gem on the one side, and I apparently bundler downloaded the 'wicked_pdf 0.6.0 9684b09' from github on the other side ...

I will come clean with all of that and I'll keep you posted.

Thanks again.