How to create a multipage PDF in Rails representing one table of data (including column headers on each new page)?

Question

How to create a multipage PDF in Rails representing one table of data (including column headers on each new page)? I've looked at many examples with wicked-pdf, pdfkit, and prawn but haven't seen anything that specifically addresses the overflow into subsequent pages and the need to repeat the headers with each new page. Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

I use Prawn to generate my pdfs, and can get the effect you desire like this:

def render_photo_table(pdf)
  ps = self.photos.map do |photo|
    [photo.filename, photo.image_height, photo.image_width]
  end
  ps.insert(0, ['Filename', 'Height', 'Width'])
  pdf.table(ps) do |table|
    table.header = true
  end
end

This yields a header (set in array position 0) at the top of each page.