2 posts tagged with "prawn gem"

Ruby on Rails developers regularly need to generate PDFs – invoices, reports, certificates, shipping labels – and the choice of library affects both performance and long-term maintenance. The Rails ecosystem in 2025 offers many approaches, from programmatic libraries to browser-powered rendering engines. This guide compares the most popular Ruby PDF gems, backed by real download metrics and practical code examples, so you can pick the right Ruby HTML to PDF solution for your project.

The Prawn gem is one of the most downloaded Ruby on Rails PDF generator libraries, used for creating complex, well-designed PDFs with clean and readable code. Below you'll learn how to set up Prawn, build an invoice PDF with tables and custom fonts, and configure the rendering options.