Downloading files from Ruby on Rails

Dominik Schöler

July 26, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

To offer files for download, use send_file.

def download(file)
  send_file file.path, :disposition => 'attachment'
end

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Note that a send_file replaces the default :render action.

License for source code

Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2011-07-26 20:19)