the short answer is now, sorry.

The longer version:
i’ve stopped using Rails with version 2.3.5. Rack and Rails have severe bugs that didn’t get fixed and with 3.x i wdidnould have to rewrite at last halve of my application. Pdf-Writer was one of the things that didn’t work anymore.

Thanks,
-Jonathan

Never got rmagick to work with native windows so i use cygwin.

Windows dev: pdf-writer 1.1.7

OS X dev + Debian prod: pdf-writer 1.1.8

My pdf might have displayed inline if I had the Adobe Reader browser plugin installed, but I didn’t want to require that of my users.

Must be some subtle problem with the new Rails on native Windows OS. I’m not using Cygwin.

Downgrading Rails on my workstation to 2.1.2 works (with the patch for Rails 2.1). That also fixed the problem I was having with writing to Postgresql tables.

Is it the same plugin you’re using?

For me its working with cygwin/win32 (using mongrel) and mac os x (mongrel as well).

Also, works in FF and IE, PDF is displayed inline, not as dl.

Cheers,
Michael.

I got it to work, mostly, but I had to modify it.

I replaced your render method with the original one from railspdf.rb, keeping the next-to-last line (eval template…) from your version of the method.

# eval template, nil, “#{@action_view.base_path}/#{@action_view.first_render}.#{@action_view.pick_template_extension(@action_view.first_render)}”
#2.1 eval template.source, nil, “#{@action_view.base_path}/#{@action_view.first_render}.#{@action_view.pick_template_extension(@action_view.first_render)}”
eval template.source, nil, ”

This allowed me to use @rails_pdf_name and “keep ie happy”.

Before I added that code, Firefox displayed the PDF as text in the browser. IE wouldn’t allow it to be viewed, and opened a download dialog with a warning:

“The file you are downloading cannot be opened by the default program. It is either corrupted or it has an incorrect file type. As a security precaution it is recommended that you cancel the download…”

When I saved the downloaded file, I could open it normally with Acrobat Reader.

After I restored most of the render method, IE worked normally, but Firefox did not recognize it as a PDF. I had to select Acrobat Reader manually to open the file, and when I did I saw that it had appended “.htm” to the file name.

This was in my development environment, with Rails 2.2.2 under Windows XP, using the WEBrick server. It’s working fine (with the 2.1 patch) deployed on a Linux box running Mongrel and Rails 2.1.2. I’m going to try downgrading to 2.1.2 Rails on my workstation. I’m having a problem writing to Postgresql tables too.

Strange, i’m using it in production and just double checked if cache_classes is turned on.

It’s in a file config/initializers/PDFRender.rb

Hm…

Cheers,
Michael.

-robert