Generate PDF from Rails

Question

The Ruby On Rails Wiki lists a couple of libraries that facilitate PDF generation in Rails. I need to print out address labels (in letter format, thus 12-15 addresses per page) and cannot decide which one to use. Any recommendations?

Answer 1

The best I've seen so far is Prawn:

• Prawn http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/
• http://advent2008.hackruby.com/past/2008/12/17/awn_and_the_future_of_ruby_pdf_generation/
• http://railstips.org/2008/10/14/how-to-generate-pdfs-in-rails-with-prawn
• Prawn Rails plugin: http://www.cracklabs.com/prawnto