Ruby On Rails: PdfKit Time Error

Question

pdfkit gem was successfully installed on my machine. Then I ran gem install wkhtmltopdf-binary , and the output was

 Successfully installed wkhtmltopdf-binary-0.9.9.1 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for wkhtmltopdf-binary-0.9.9.1... unable to convert "\xC0" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for bin/wkhtmltopdf_linux_386, skipping unable to convert "\xA3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for bin/wkhtmltopdf_linux_x64, skipping unable to convert "\xCE" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for bin/wkhtmltopdf_darwin_386, skipping Installing RDoc documentation for wkhtmltopdf-binary-0.9.9.1... unable to convert "\xC0" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for bin/wkhtmltopdf_linux_386, skipping unable to convert "\xA3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for bin/wkhtmltopdf_linux_x64, skipping unable to convert "\xCE" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for bin/wkhtmltopdf_darwin_386, skipping 

Well, then I tried to access the pdf version of my page. But it also showed me the error Runtime Error ControllerName # show

 command failed: "/home/yasir/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/wkhtmltopdf" "--page-size" "Letter" "--margin-top" "0.75in" "--margin-right" "0.75in" "--margin-bottom" "0.75in" "--margin-left" "0.75in" "--encoding" "UTF-8" "--quiet" "-" "- 

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Answer 1

Add the installation path wkhtmltopdf to the pdfkit configuration file (config / initializers / pdfkit.rb) as shown below

 PDFKit.configure do |config| # Download compatible version of wkhtmltopdf from 'http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html' # Install it in your system. # Then run 'which wkhtmltopdf' in your terminal to identify the path and update it below config.wkhtmltopdf = '/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf' end