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Ruby SDK
We provide a Ruby SDK to connect to PDFMonkey. This gem is the quickest way to use our API with Ruby.
Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:
Gemfile
gem 'pdfmonkey'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install pdfmonkey
PDFMonkey will look for the
PDFMONKEY_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable. This variable should contain your private key obtained at https://dashboard.pdfmonkey.io/account.PDFMONKEY_PRIVATE_KEY=j39ckj4…
You can choose to set up your credentials explicitely in your application:
Pdfmonkey.configure do |config|
config.private_key = 'j39ckj4…'
end
Once your App is created in the PDFMonkey Dashboard, create a Document Template and add the content you want to use. Every Document Template has a unique identifier (UUID), get your template’s identifier. Your ready to generate a Document.
If your want to wait for a Document’s generation before continuing with your workflow, use the
generate! method, it will request a document generation and wait for it to succeed or fail before giving you any answer.template_id = 'b13ebd75-d290-409b-9cac-8f597ae3e785'
data = { name: 'John Doe' }
document = Pdfmonkey::Document.generate!(template_id, data)
document.status # => 'success'
document.download_url # => 'https://…'
The Download URL is temporary
The download URL of a document is only valid for 1 hour. Passed this delay, reload the document to obtain a new one by calling
document.reload!PDFMonkey was created with an asynchronous workflow in mind. It provides webhooks to inform you of a Document’s generation success.
To leverage this behavior and continue working while your Document is generated, use the
generate method:template_id = 'b13ebd75-d290-409b-9cac-8f597ae3e785'
data = { name: 'John Doe' }
document = Pdfmonkey::Document.generate(template_id, data)
document.status # => 'pending'
document.download_url # => nil
If you have a webhook URL set up it will be called with you document once the generation is complete. You can simulate it for testing with the following cURL command:
curl <url of your app> \
-X POST \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"document": {
"app_id": "d9ec8249-65ae-4d50-8aee-7c12c1f9683a",
"checksum": "ac0c2b6bcc77e2b01dc6ca6a9f656b2d",
"created_at": "2020-01-02T03:04:05.000+01:00",
"document_template_id": "f7fbe2b4-a57c-46ee-8422-5ae8cc37daac",
"download_url": "https://example.com/76bebeb9-9eb1-481a-bc3c-faf43dc3ac81.pdf",
"filename": "76bebeb9-9eb1-481a-bc3c-faf43dc3ac81.pdf",
"id": "76bebeb9-9eb1-481a-bc3c-faf43dc3ac81",
"meta": null,
"payload": "{\"name\": \"John Doe\"}",
"preview_url": null,
"status": "success",
"updated_at": "2020-01-02T03:04:15.000+01:00"
}
}'
In addition to the Document’s payload you can add meta data when generating a Document.
This can be done by passing a third argument to the
generate! and generate methods:meta = {
_filename: 'john-doe-contract.pdf',
client_id: '123xxx123'
}
document = Pdfmonkey::Document.generate!(template_id, payload, meta)
document.meta
# => '{"_filename":"john-doe-contract.pdf","client_id":"123xxx123"}'
document = Pdfmonkey::Document.generate(template_id, payload, meta)
document.meta
# => '{"_filename":"john-doe-contract.pdf","client_id":"123xxx123"}'
In case of error, be it an HTTP layer error or an API error,
document.status will be set to 'error' and document.error will contain the error message.# Using an unknown template
template_id = 'unknown'
data = { name: 'John Doe' }
document = Pdfmonkey::Document.generate(template_id, data)
document.status # => 'error'
document.errors # => ["Document template must exist"]
# If the network is down
document = Pdfmonkey::Document.generate(template_id, data)
document.status # => 'error'
document.errors # => ["Failed to open TCP connection to api.pdfmonkey.io:443 (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known)"]
You can fetch an existing document using the
.fetch method:document = Pdfmonkey::Document.fetch('76bebeb9-9eb1-481a-bc3c-faf43dc3ac81')
In case of error, be it an HTTP layer error or an API error,
document.status will be set to 'error' and document.error will contain the error message.document = Pdfmonkey::Document.fetch('unknown')
document.status # => 'error'
document.errors # => ["We couldn't find any Document with ID \"unknown\"..."]
# If the network is down
document = Pdfmonkey::Document.fetch('95eb0b6e-090b-4195-9b7c-cc3d50099867')
document.status # => 'error'
document.errors # => ["Failed to open TCP connection to api.pdfmonkey.io:443 (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known)"]
You can delete an existing document using the
.delete method:Pdfmonkey::Document.delete('76bebeb9-9eb1-481a-bc3c-faf43dc3ac81')
#=> true
Alternatively you can call the
#delete! method:document.delete!
#=> true
In case of error, be it an HTTP layer error or an API error, an error Hash will be returned.
document.delete!
#=> true
document.delete!
# {
# errors: ["We couldn't find any Document with ID \"11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555\". If ..."],
# status: "error"
# }
# If the network is down
document.delete!
# {
# errors: ["Failed to open TCP connection to api.pdfmonkey.io:443 (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known)"],
# status: "error"
# }