wicked_pdf not working in production server

Question

Locally It works without any error but when I try to generate the PDF on the server it throws:

 RuntimeError (Failed to execute:
    ["/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf", "-q", "file:////tmp/wicked_pdf20180531-994-1x8fbfn.html", "/tmp/wicked_pdf_generated_file20180531-994-1vidmtk.pdf"]
    Error: PDF could not be generated!
Command Error: /usr/bin/env: ruby: No such file or directory

Here's what's on my_controller.

pdf=WickedPdf.new.pdf_from_string(render_to_string('disc_bill',:layout=>false))
  save_file = Rails.root.join("public","bill.pdf")
  File.open(save_file, 'wb') do |file|
    file << pdf
  end

And in my Gemfile

gem 'wicked_pdf', '~> 1.1'
gem 'wkhtmltopdf-binary', '~> 0.12.3.1'

Runtime here means the 3rd party libs are not installed, that is what I think. This particular gem depends on C libraries. Try to generate a PDF by hand from your console and tell what errors will you meet then — seethrough, Jun 02 '18 at 11:17
wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com google.pdf working fine on the server. — Bibin Joseph, Jun 02 '18 at 11:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 18 '20 at 18:28

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Looks like the wkhtmltopdf command is not in the PATH, you can fix this by changing the WickedPdf.config to

WickedPdf.config = {
  exe_path: Rails.env.production? ? '/path/to/bin/wkhtmltopdf' : '/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf'
}

edited Feb 18 '20 at 18:28

Samuel G. P.

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answered Jun 04 '18 at 09:35

Rajesh V

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '18 at 07:10

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When I downgrade the version of wkhtmltopdf to 0.9.9 in the server worked for me

answered Jun 05 '18 at 07:10

Bibin Joseph

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wicked_pdf not working in production server

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