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ScieCode
ScieCode

Reputation: 1735

Every link_to on my rails 4 application is being called twice

I'm experiencing some unusual behaviour with my Rails 4 Application. Every single-time I click on a link_to inside my views, my controllers actions are being called twice. For example:

In my root_url I have this standard call for users_profile:

<%= link_to('User Profile', users_profile_path, :class => "logout-button") %>

When I click this link, my console shows the following output:

Started GET "/users/profile" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-11-25 20:45:53 -0200
Processing by Users::SessionsController#profile as HTML
  User Load (0.7ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = 45 ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT 1
  InvestorProfile Load (0.5ms)  SELECT "investor_profiles".* FROM "investor_profiles" WHERE "investor_profiles"."user_id" = $1 ORDER BY "investor_profiles"."id" ASC LIMIT 1  [["user_id", 45]]
  EmployeeProfile Load (0.5ms)  SELECT "employee_profiles".* FROM "employee_profiles" WHERE "employee_profiles"."user_id" = $1 ORDER BY "employee_profiles"."id" ASC LIMIT 1  [["user_id", 45]]
  Rendered users/sessions/_investor_setup.html.erb (3.9ms)
  Rendered users/sessions/profile.html.erb within layouts/application (5.2ms)
Completed 200 OK in 19ms (Views: 11.2ms | ActiveRecord: 2.5ms)


Started GET "/users/profile" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-11-25 20:45:53 -0200
Processing by Users::SessionsController#profile as HTML
  User Load (0.3ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = 45 ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT 1
  InvestorProfile Load (0.3ms)  SELECT "investor_profiles".* FROM "investor_profiles" WHERE "investor_profiles"."user_id" = $1 ORDER BY "investor_profiles"."id" ASC LIMIT 1  [["user_id", 45]]
  EmployeeProfile Load (0.2ms)  SELECT "employee_profiles".* FROM "employee_profiles" WHERE "employee_profiles"."user_id" = $1 ORDER BY "employee_profiles"."id" ASC LIMIT 1  [["user_id", 45]]
  Rendered users/sessions/_investor_setup.html.erb (3.3ms)
  Rendered users/sessions/profile.html.erb within layouts/application (4.1ms)
Completed 200 OK in 12ms (Views: 7.5ms | ActiveRecord: 1.2ms)

People often have this behaviour when there's a remote (JS for example) calling the method, but this is not my case. the weirdest part is that, if I put the direct URL to the users_profile_path on my browser. I only get one request on my rails console:

Started GET "/users/profile" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-11-25 20:48:17 -0200
Processing by Users::SessionsController#profile as HTML
  User Load (0.3ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = 45 ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT 1
  InvestorProfile Load (0.3ms)  SELECT "investor_profiles".* FROM "investor_profiles" WHERE "investor_profiles"."user_id" = $1 ORDER BY "investor_profiles"."id" ASC LIMIT 1  [["user_id", 45]]
  EmployeeProfile Load (0.2ms)  SELECT "employee_profiles".* FROM "employee_profiles" WHERE "employee_profiles"."user_id" = $1 ORDER BY "employee_profiles"."id" ASC LIMIT 1  [["user_id", 45]]
  Rendered users/sessions/_investor_setup.html.erb (3.4ms)
  Rendered users/sessions/profile.html.erb within layouts/application (4.2ms)
Completed 200 OK in 12ms (Views: 7.7ms | ActiveRecord: 1.1ms)

I'm getting this same result for every link inside my application, not only this one.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 5893

Answers (4)

S.Yadav
S.Yadav

Reputation: 4509

Rails 5/6

When I was clicking on a link, the whole controller was being called twice. I tried the accepted answer, but it does not work for me, so I just set turbolinks: false as below:

<%= link_to("Demo", @user, data: { turbolinks: false } ) %>

Upvotes: 12

tmarkiewicz
tmarkiewicz

Reputation: 515

Another solution is to add data-no-turbolink to the tag.

More info here: http://blog.flightswithfriends.com/post/53943440505/how-to-disable-turbolinks-in-rails-4

Upvotes: 3

mrcook
mrcook

Reputation: 640

If you would like your app to still make use of Turbolinks then "Opting out of Turbolinks" on the code that is giving you problems is the way to go; just add data-no-turbolink.

I was having problems with using Bootstrap 3 and adding that fixed it. For example;

<li class="list-group-item" data-no-turbolink>
  <%= link_to download_path(item) do %>
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-success">Download</button>
  <% end %>
</li>

Upvotes: 11

ScieCode
ScieCode

Reputation: 1735

I actually managed to solve this on my own. There's a default gem that is installed with rails 4.0, it is called Turbolinks*.

For some reason, the javascript used in this gem* was causing the doubled requests on my server. That's why only GET requests were behaving like this, and POST requests were normal. I still don't fully understand why gem* causes that, but after I removed the following line from my application.js file, the doubled requests stopped.

=// require turbolinks

Upvotes: 3

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