This gem is to use PDFjs pdf viewer in the rails project. Pdfjs is one of the best open source Pdf viewer from Mozilla. https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/
Online Demo http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
Demo Rails 4 Appliction https://github.com/shyammohankanojia/pdfjs_viewer_demo
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'pdfjs_rails'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install pdfjs_rails
$ rails g pdfjs_rails:install
This will copy pdfjs files to your public dir.
To Display pdf files in your view use this iframe in your html page
<iframe src="/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=http://cdn.mozilla.net/pdfjs/helloworld.pdf" style="border: 0" width="50%" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
Note: "file=" in the src url is the reference to the pdf.
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request