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

Try setting the disposition to attachment in send_file:

class DownloadController < ApplicationController
  def index
    ...
    send_file( @path, :disposition => 'attachment' )
  end
end

The issue may be that your browser is trying to open the file itself - :disposition => 'attachment' prompts the browser to download the file, even if it thinks the file is something that it can open.