PDF generation in rails 3 with prawn

Firstly, as always, there is a fantastic Railscast by Ryan Bates which explains Prawn perfectly. Having said that, there are a few things that it doesn’t mention that you need to do in order to use prawn in Rails 3. The path to getting this working is as follows;

#First install prawn on your system (lose the sudo if you're running under RVM)
sudo gem install prawn

#install the prawnto plugin
rails plugin install https://github.com/prior/prawnto.git

#add prawn to your Gemfile
gem "prawn"

After this, you should be able to do everything Ryan does in his railscast

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