Re: [Rails] Re: General Information About RoR

2014-08-05 Thread Diego Dillenburg Bueno
Thank you guys for the information provided, it was really helpful! I'm going to research a little more in this subject and in the topics you provided me. Regards, Diego Dillenburg Bueno 2014-08-04 16:52 GMT-03:00 Walther walt...@diechmann.net: You could start CUPS on the local webserver and

[Rails] Re: General Information About RoR

2014-08-04 Thread Eric Saupe
Hey Diego, First, there is nothing wrong with running a local web server and just having your browsers access it. Since the only users of your application are going to be those on the same network it really doesn't matter if it is hosted externally or internally and since the Internet going

Re: [Rails] Re: General Information About RoR

2014-08-04 Thread Diego Dillenburg Bueno
Hey Eric, thanks for the attention, really helped me sorting out on what technologies to use. We were fearing that it would end out looking like some kind of poor job building it on a local server. As of the integration with periphericals I hadn't thought about this approach, it seems pretty

Re: [Rails] Re: General Information About RoR

2014-08-04 Thread Diego Dillenburg Bueno
A quick update: it seems that the printer manufacturer provides a integration tool built in a dll file. If that is of any help towards the solution. 2014-08-04 14:22 GMT-03:00 Diego Dillenburg Bueno diegodillenb...@gmail.com : Hey Eric, thanks for the attention, really helped me sorting out

Re: [Rails] Re: General Information About RoR

2014-08-04 Thread Eric Saupe
I was just thinking about doing something really quick like rendering a page that is printer friendly using Rails and just having them hit CTRL+P but if you wanted to bypass that and send it straight to the printer that works too. From a quick Google search it seems the best way is to issue OS

Re: [Rails] Re: General Information About RoR

2014-08-04 Thread Walther
You could start CUPS on the local webserver and attach the printer to cups and print the receipt in a delayed_job with a system call a la 'lp -d printer_name rendered_pdf_file_name' :) Med venlig hilsen Walther Den 04/08/2014 kl. 19.31 skrev Eric Saupe ericsa...@gmail.com: I was just