Opening pdf data as image in rails views

Question

I have used Rails 4,

views

<div>
    <%=image_tag(some_method_path), class: 'image-view' %>
</div>

controller method

def some_method
 @label_image = Base64_incoded image hex
 send_data @label_image, :type => 'application/pdf', :disposition => 'inline'
end

The image is not opening in view but it is opening as pdf if we run the url in window.

How to display the pdf as image in the div ?

Any help appreciated

Answer 1

As far as I understood, what you are trying to do is to render a preview into an image tag of a PDF document. However, this is not an automatic task, and your browser won't magically perform the conversion for you.

You need a library to render the PDF and capture a preview. This is not a Rails problem, it's a generic PDF conversion problem.

Note. This question is very similar to How to have pdf viewer in ruby