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Christian O'Rourke
Christian O'Rourke

Reputation: 163

Correct place to put downloadable files in Rails 5

I recently made a website for someone in which they want to have a free download of a card game that they made in the form of a .zip file.

I have the download working but was wondering if there is a "correct" place to put public downloadable files according to Rails. When I put the .zip file in my public folder and change my download_cards method to reflect the changes I get an "unable to locate file" error message.

This is my setup for the download:

Controller:

class DownloadsController < ApplicationController
    def download_cards
        send_file "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/downloads/cardgame.zip", type: "application/zip", x_sendfile: true
    end
end

Routes:

Rails.application.routes.draw do

  root 'static_pages#home'

  get 'download_cards', to: "downloads#download_cards"

end

View:

<%= link_to "download the cardz", download_cardz_path %>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1965

Answers (1)

dave_slash_null
dave_slash_null

Reputation: 1124

You could place the file directly in the public/ folder and then use

<%= link_to "Download Card Game", "/cardgame.zip" %>

This will create a the following link

<a href="/cardgame.zip">Download Card Game</a>

When Rails receives GET /cardgame.zip it will check the public/ directory for a matching file before looking for a route that matches. No need for a controller at all to serve static files.

Upvotes: 7

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