Rails 4, asset pipeline causes user downloadable files to be downloaded twice

Question

I have a folder in my app directory named \"uploads\" where users can upload files and download files. I don\'t want the uploads folder to be in the public directory becaus

Answer 1

For anyone having this problem, I solved it. Pass

'data-no-turbolink' => true 

into the link_to helper to stop Turbolinks from messing with the download.

https://github.com/rails/turbolinks/issues/182