Max Williams wrote:> I''m editing a controller action that previously used
"send_file" to send
> a file and then just returned, like
>
> send_file(some_params) and return
>
> Now, though, the downloading has been moved into a different controller
> action, and i need to get back to the ''show'' page after
the user starts
> downloading the file. After doing the send_file, i tried to render the
> show action, but this makes the controller think that the show page url
> is the file i''m trying to send: i get an error message like
"The file
> <show page url here> could not be located...".
You can''t. The browser has made an http request and you get to provide
one response, either you render a template/send a file (those two are
basically the same thing: a 200 response containing some data) or you
redirect (a 30x response telling the browser where to go). You can''t
do both.
Fred>
> Can anyone tell me if/how i can send the file and then
> redirect_to/render another view page?
>
> thanks
> max
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