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Making PDF receipts

Making PDF receipts

- [Instructor] To generate our PDF receipts we're going to use a gem that I created a couple years ago and creatively named receipts. So this generates receipts that look like this, they'll have a logo, an ID for the charge, so that if you need to do support you can look it up easily if they send you the receipt, and it tells you the support information for the email address that they would need to contact, and it records all that information about the account, such as which account it was, what product they purchased, the amount, and which credit card was charged, as well as your company name and email address at the bottom. This gem's really easy to use, you basically just install it and you create a receipt method on your charge and create a new receipt in memory, which will represent the PDF it's going to generate. And you just pass in some options. There's a whole bunch of options that you can pass in. There's a few that are required. You can either pass in the product you're…

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