Using html entities in Ruby

HTML character entities are used to display reserved characters in a web page. The entire list of character entity references can be found here. Sometimes you may want to use HTML entities inside your ruby code. This is where gem htmlentities comes into picture. This is a simple library to facilitate encoding and decoding of … Continue reading →

Installing wkhtmltopdf on centos

Wkhtmltopdf is s simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine. You can find the official documentation here. This is one of the important dependencies for software related to PDFs. In this article i will show you how to install this utility on a CentOS machine. Grab the installer from … Continue reading →