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The Rails PDF plugin is a dandy little thing. It wraps the PDF::Writer library for Ruby, allowing PDF templates to be defined like any other Rails view (with a .rpdf extension, of course).
One thing it doesn’t do is allow access to the parent controller’s helper from within a PDF template. It’s easy enough to patch [...]
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