pmb-client is a tiny gem that acts as a client to the Print My Barcode web service. It is dependent on the json_api_client gem.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'pmb-client', '0.1.0', :github => 'jbeast/pmb-client'And then execute:
$ bundle
require 'pmb-client'
# set the api base url
PMB::Base.site = 'http://pmb.server:1234/v1'The client implements the following resources:
- PMB::LabelType
- PMB::LabelTemplate
- PMB::Label
- PMB::Bitmap
- PMB::Barcode
- PMB::PrintJob
- PMB::Printer
For usage instructions see the json_api_client README.
The PMB::PrintJob also has the convinience class method execute. This is an alias of create.
Basic print job creation.
PMB::PrintJob.create(
printer_name:'printer_name',
label_template_id:1,
labels:{
body:[{
label_name:{
bitmap_name_a:'bitmap_text',
bitmap_name_b:'bitmap_text',
barcode_name_a:'barcode_value'
}
}]
}
)Registering a new template type
label_type_id = PMB::LabelType.all.detect {|lt| lt.name == 'Example Type'}.id
label_template = PMB::LabelTemplate.create({
name: 'Temlatey McTemplateface',
label_type_id: label_type_id, # Plate
labels_attributes:[{
name: 'label_name',
bitmaps_attributes:[
{"horizontal_magnification":"05","vertical_magnification":"1","font":"G","space_adjustment":"00","rotational_angles":"00","x_origin":"0030","y_origin":"0035","field_name":"bitmap_name_a"},
{"horizontal_magnification":"05","vertical_magnification":"1","font":"G","space_adjustment":"00","rotational_angles":"00","x_origin":"0030","y_origin":"0065","field_name":"bitmap_name_b"}
],
barcodes_attributes:[{"barcode_type":"9","one_module_width":"02","height":"0070","x_origin":"0300","y_origin":"0000","field_name":"barcode_name_a"}]
}]
})The gem is available as open source under the terms of the GPL 3.0 License.