rails convert html to image

I'm looking for a way to convert html tags to a image on the fly...

That means, that I want to be able to make a image_tag with a path to a method which returns the image c开发者_开发问答reated form html.

I was looking for a solution on that, but couldn't come up with a proper way to solve that...

Any Ideas?

Maechi

IMGkit can do the job (details on github)

Create JPGs using plain old HTML+CSS

kit = IMGKit.new('http://google.com')
kit.to_jpg
kit.to_jpeg 
kit.to_png
kit.to_tif
kit.to_tiff

or in your controller

@kit = IMGKit.new(render_as_string)

format.jpg do
  send_data(@kit.to_jpg, :type => "image/jpeg", :disposition => 'inline')
end

I'm going to take a wild guess here and guess that you want to convert HTML to an image, so take a "snapshot" of a web page or something. I'm not sure exactly how to do this in one step, but one way to do it is to use PDFKit to convert to PDF and then use RMagick to convert to whatever image format you want.

IMGKIT reqiured css with absolute url for any background image or other assets. So you can generate it dynamically following this link https://coderwall.com/p/exj0ig and some steps as

A) Put your all images in assets/images folder of rails app

B) Install gem 'sass-rails' if not install https://github.com/rails/sass-rails

C) create another css file name as css_file_name.css.sccs.erb

D) put your all other css file content in it.

E) In css file just put your image file name as below: background-image: image-url('image.png');

F) Use assets pipline (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html#how-to-use-the-asset-pipeline) Run below command as your app mode: (1) Development Mode: RAILS_ENV=development bundle exec rake assets:precompile (2) Production Mode: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

G) In your config/environments/

(1) In development.rb config.action_controller.asset_host = "YOUR LOCAL HOST URL i.e YOUR_LOCALHOST_ADDRESS"

(2) In production.rb config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com" /YOUR ADDRESS/

H) And last relate your stylesheet with IMGKIT as below

html_content = "YOUR HTML CONTENT"
kit = IMGKit.new(html_content, height: 900, transparent:true, quality:10) /*YOUR SETTING*/
kit.stylesheets << "#{Rails.root}/public/assets/application.css"
file = kit.to_file(Rails.root + "public/pngs/" + "screenshot.png") /*YOUR IMAGE NAME*/
send_file("#{Rails.root}/public/pngs/screenshot.png", :filename => "screenshot.png", :type => "image/png",:disposition => 'attachment',:streaming=> 'true') /*YOUR ADDRESS WHERE U WANT TO STORE PNG FILE*/

I) Restart server and enjoy!!!!!

[NOTE: After every changes please run assets pipline command to get latest application.css which is made from .sccs.erb extension file.]

1. write a regular action, such as render_html_action to render html page
2. write another action, such as snapshot_action, using puppeteer-ruby to snapshot the render_html_action rendered html as jpg or pdf