On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 11:10:58 AM UTC+1, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote: > > > I have built a little webmail client, and I need to make attachments > downloadable to the users. I have the base64 ecoded rappresentation of > the file, and I don't know how to generate and send the file. > > > I have tried send_data, with disposition :attachment, but the request > take a lot of time and it doesn't even prompt the download dialog. I am > surely missing the whole point here, and I need some clarity. > > You really want to be using send_file rather than send_data, because send_data ties up your rails process sending the data whereas send_file will offload to apache/nginx if properly setup (on apache this requires the X-Sendfile module, I forget what the nginx equivalent is)
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