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Here's a quick tip about printing, stylesheets and Ruby on Rails applications. I'm betting most of you use the default form of stylesheet_link_tag. See the example usage from the API documentation:

stylesheet_link_tag "style" # =>
    <link href="/stylesheets/style.css" media="screen" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Notice that the Rails helper defaults to inserting a media="screen" attribute into your link tag. The practical implication is that printing will lack a stylesheet (and probably look really bad.)

You have two choices: 1) tack :media => "all" onto the end of that helper method call, so that the same stylesheet is used when printing or 2) write a print stylesheet.