Ruby on rails, often shortened to rails, is an open source, fullstack web application framework for the ruby programming language. This guide covers getting up and running with ruby on rails. How to render format in pdf in rails stack overflow. Hexapdf is a pure ruby library with an accompanying application for working with pdf files. This tutorial will provide stepbystep instructions for generating pdfs by using wkhtmltopdf, an open source cli for rendering html into pdf. The concept of sessions in rails, what to put in there and popular attack methods. Ruby, rails and rspec documentation with users notes. Ruby on rails code justin collins tin zaw appsec usa september 23, 2011.
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