ruby on rails (wkhtmltopdf header footer issue)

Question

In local environment pdf with header footer generated successfully. but in hosting linux server environment pdf generated without header and footer.Below is my wkhtmltopdf (WickedPdf) config

WickedPdf.config = {
    #:wkhtmltopdf => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/pdfbin/wkhtmltopdf-amd64",
    :exe_path => "/home/software/.gems/bin/wkhtmltopdf",
    :layout => "layouts/pdf.html.erb",
    :margin => {    :top=> 40,
                    :bottom => 20,
                    :left=> 30,
                    :right => 30},
    :header => {:html => { :template=> 'layouts/pdf_header.html.erb'}},
    :footer => {:html => { :template=> 'layouts/pdf_footer.html.erb'}}
    #:exe_path => '/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf'
}

for additional info :

this is my dir structure i am on linux rails hosting app\views\layouts , inside layouts i am having pdf.html.erb , pdf_footer.html.erb , pdf_header.html.erb The above stuff works perfectly on my local windows development environment , but in production pdf generated without headers and footers.so guys please help me to produce pdf with headers and footers

app/views/layouts/pdf.html.erb

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html dir="<%= (rtl?) ? 'rtl' : 'ltr' %>">
  <head>
    <% @direction = (rtl?) ? 'rtl/' : '' %>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> 
    <%= stylesheet_link_tag([@direction+'application', @direction+'_styles/ui.all'])%>
    <%= stylesheet_link_tag(*get_stylesheets) %>
    <%= stylesheet_link_tag  @direction+"_layouts/pdf" %>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<%="#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/stylesheets/#{@direction}_layouts/pdf.css" %>" media="all" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<%="#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/stylesheets/#{get_stylesheets}.css"%>" media="all" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<%= "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/stylesheets/#{@direction}_styles/ui.all.css"%>" media="all" />


  </head>
  <body>

    <%= yield %>

  </body>
</html>

app/views/layouts/pdf_header.html.erb

<div id="pdf-header">
      <div class="logo">
        <% if FileTest.exists?("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/uploads/image/institute_logo.jpg") %>
            <%= image_tag  "#{request.protocol}#{request.host_with_port}/uploads/image/institute_logo.jpg" ,:width => "90",  :height=>"85" %>
          <% else %>

          <div class="fed_logo">
            <%= image_tag  "#{request.protocol}#{request.host_with_port}/images/application/app_fedena_logo.jpg" ,:width => "90",  :height=>"85" %>
    </div>
          <% end %>
      </div>
      <div class="header-content">
        <p><%=Configuration.get_config_value('InstitutionName'); %></p>
        <p><%=Configuration.get_config_value('InstitutionAddress'); %></p>
      </div>

</div>

app/views/layouts/pdf_footer.html.erb

<div id="pdf-footer">
  <%= t('signature') %>
</div>

Note* The above codes working perfectly on my windows development environment (ie) PDF generated properly with header and footers. But when i hosted my application in linux production server PDF generated without headers and footers.*

Resolved Header Footer Issue , the above is the working code. The above problem is due to my files don't have enough executable permissions in production Linux environment.

Seems like a path issue. Are you sure the currently running process can find the headers and footers from a relative path? You might want to use an absolute path using Rails.root. — Casper
this is my dir structure i am on linux rails hosting app\views\layouts , inside layouts i am having pdf.html.erb , pdf_footer.html.erb , pdf_header.html.erb , i am new to ruby on rails , i am try to running an existing projects , i dont know how to refer these things in WickedPdf.config — Sam
i tried :layout => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/views/layouts/pdf.html", :header => {:html => { :template=> '#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/views/layouts/pdf_header.html'}}, :footer => {:html => { :template=> '#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/views/layouts/pdf_footer.html'}} but i got this error ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing layout /home/software/rails_apps/saras/app/views/layouts/pdf.html in view path app/views:vendor/plugins/fckeditor/app/views:vendor/bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/declarative_authorization-0.5.1/app/views): vendor/bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_view/paths.rb:66:in `find_template' — Sam
Ok. Yeah that doesn't work. I checked WickedPdf and it seems it takes care of the rails paths itself. So you don't need Rails.root. Sorry about that. So something else must be wrong. — Casper
@user1402576 could you please check the same directly with the library i.e wkhtmltopdf instead of wickedpdf — Viren

vlain vlain · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-23T11:32:54

Put .erb at the end of filename

:header => {:html => { :template=> 'layouts/pdf_header.html.erb'}},
:footer => {:html => { :template=> 'layouts/pdf_footer.html.erb'}}

ruby on rails (wkhtmltopdf header footer issue)

Resolved Header Footer Issue , the above is the working code. The above problem is due to my files don't have enough executable permissions in production Linux environment.

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