CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-rails
EastsideDev
EastsideDev

Reputation: 6639

File is not downloading to local PC

Rails 5.1

In app/controllers/fw_exports_controller.rb, I have:

def download_csv
  followed = Followed.find(params[:followed_id])
  file_path = "#{Rails.root.to_s}/csv_container/#{followed.screen_name}_locations.csv"
  send_file (file_path), :type => "text/csv", :disposition => 'inline'
  redirect_to root_path, notice: t('fw_exports.spreadsheet_export.download_ok')
end

When this executes, I see the following in my log file:

Started POST "/download_csv" for 75.151.110.193 at 2017-12-12 22:31:56 +0000
Processing by FwExportsController#download_csv as HTML
  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"...", "followed_id"=>"followed.1510895564.0013862", "button"=>""}
  Followed Load  SELECT  `followeds`.* FROM `followeds` WHERE `followeds`.`id` = 'followed.1510895564.0013862' LIMIT 1
  Sent file /home/fwtest/rails/csv_container/wm_locations.csv (0.2ms)
  Redirected to http://fwtest.myapp.com/

I verified that /home/fwtest/rails/csv_container/wm_locations.csv is there and it's a CSV, but nothing downloads to my local PC.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 30

Answers (1)

MrShemek
MrShemek

Reputation: 2483

Remove redirect_to. If you have both send_file and redirect_to you are sending two responses - file and redirect. You are redirecting to root_path and the download does not start.

Upvotes: 1

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