HTML to PNG with Ruby and Playwright

Install Playwright and Playwright client for Ruby

npm install playwright@1.27.1
gem install playwright-ruby-client

Convert HTML to PNG and save to file

require 'playwright'

Playwright.create(playwright_cli_executable_path: './node_modules/.bin/playwright') do |playwright|
  playwright.chromium.launch(headless: false) do |browser|
    page = browser.new_page
    page.set_content('<html><body><h1>Hello World</h1></body></html>')
    page.screenshot(path: './html.png')
  end
end

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