Send parental and media consent copies in PDF format in confirmation emails to parent/guardians

[rsgonzal]

Background After the parent/guardian signs the parental consent and the media consent, they get a confirmation email (for each one) with a copy of consent form.

Deliverable Update these confirmation emails so the consent forms that are included are in PDF format.

[rsgonzal]

• Keep the top intro portion of the email
• Turn Parent Consent into a PDF
• Add media consent as a PDF

[rsgonzal]

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[rsgonzal]

Tip: Look at parental consent form that students can download from their dashboard with name & info filled in

[shaun-technovation]

I was looking at this last week, and couldn't get our PDF library, "wkhtmltopdf" to render the consent forms as PDFs. Given that the parental consent is already sent as plain text, I just made the media consent one the same. Hopefully we can revisit this when we get some more breathing room. :smile:

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Some notes on what I tried.

I couldn't get this to work through the app so I tried it from the rails console and also couldn't get it to work there:

$ PDFKit.new(File.new(Rails.root.join("app/views/student/downloadable_parental_consents/show.html.erb"))).to_pdf

Exit with code 1, due to unknown error.
Traceback (most recent call last):

But this simple command would work:

PDFKit.new("").to_pdf

And even after making downloadable_parental_consents/show.html.erb an empty file (to mimic the last command), it still wouldn't work. :shrug: