Question

I’m trying to set up PDFKit but I can’t even run my application to start with. I keep getting this error:

`require': cannot load such file -- pdfkit (LoadError)

Here is my entire application.rb file.

require File.expand_path('../boot', __FILE__)

require 'rails/all'
require 'pdfkit'

if defined?(Bundler)
  # If you precompile assets before deploying to production, use this line
   Bundler.require(*Rails.groups(:assets => %w(development test)))
  # If you want your assets lazily compiled in production, use this line
  #Bundler.require(:default, :assets, Rails.env)
end

module Form
  class Application < Rails::Application

    # Configure the default encoding used in templates for Ruby 1.9.
    config.encoding = "utf-8"

    # Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log file.
    config.filter_parameters += [:password]


    # Enable the asset pipeline
    config.assets.enabled = true

    # Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your assets
    config.assets.version = '1.0'
    config.middleware.use PDFKit::Middleware

  end
end

I’ve followed the instructions on the wiki page for pdfkit but I’m bogged with this error. I think it can’t find the pdfkit gem but it seems to be installed. Please do help.

Answer 1

Remove require 'pdfkit' from application.rb

Add to your Gemfile

gem "pdfkit"

And then run bundle command from your rails root dir.