On Apr 29, 10:57 am, Max Williams <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I have a table on a page, and i want a link to download the table data
> as a csv. One way to do this would be to have my model class build a
> file, and pass the filename back to the controller, which uses send_file
> to send it to the user. But, this seems a bit heavy handed - it's a
> small amount of data, which is subject to change, and i don't want a
> load of files hanging around if i can help it.
>
Have a look at send_data.
Fred
> Is there a simple way to just generate some text and push it back as a
> file? eg
>
> 1) use a simple view which is rendered normally in the controller, and
> change the link_to tag to download the results instead of render it?
> (if so, how do i set the filename?)
>
> 2) have a normal link_to tag and have the controller build the text
> itself (it's just going to be an array join effectively) and push the
> text back as a file.
>
> Any advice welcome - thanks!
> max
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