Ruby Mendicant Project

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A grassroots funding drive raises 70 donors plus organizational matching and pays for 22 weeks of development to build Prawn, a Ruby PDF generator that becomes a working alternative to PDF Writer. Prawn provides low‑level Ruby→PDF object serialization, testable output (uses PDF::Reader), UTF‑8 TrueType font support, image input from any object that responds to read, tables, bounding boxes and page flow, runs on Ruby 1.8/1.9, powers real invoices (GitHub) and still lacks PDF import/merge without external tools.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:02Ruby Mendicant Project Gregory Brown
3. 3:23Dana Generos
4. 4:16True Meritocr
5. 6:32James Healy FT
6. 7:36Why Prawn
7. 15:24The Real Poi
8. 17:41Developer APIs simplify interact with low-level sy
9. 19:03Real code is mom

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