Ruby on Rails send_file doesn't work until i refresh the page?

Question

I am working on a Rails server which I can download my locally stored movies and anime etc from. This is kind of working but when I click the download link I have to refresh

Answer 1

Are you using turbolinks? Turbolinks apparently doesn't play nicely with send_file (https://github.com/rails/turbolinks/issues/182). Try adding "data: { no-turbolink: true }" (or "'data-no-turbolink'=>true") in the link_to helper, e.g.:

<%= link_to "Downloadable File", downloadable_file, data: { no-turbolink: true } %>

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