Save a Prawn PDF as a Paperclip attachment?

Question

I\'m using Prawn and Prawnto to display a PDF-based reports to the user, but in some circumstances, I\'d also like to save the PDF as an attachment to one of my models. I\'m usi

Answer 1

It should work if you just pass a File reference to that PDF to Paperclip.

require 'prawn'
pdf = Prawn::Document.new
pdf.text("Prawn Rocks")
pdf.render_file('/path/to/prawn.pdf')

pdf_file = File.open('/path/to/prawn.pdf')

# assuming your Paperclip association is named "pdf_attachment"
my_model.pdf_attachment = pdf_file