Question

I have an area on my site where a user can upload files to the server. The files are not restricted to the type of file. Everything works in Firefox etc, but safari tries to open the file in a new window resulting in gibberish for filetypes it does not understand. I can “save linked file” and everything works fine. However for usability I want the file to download automatically when the link is clicked. I used carrierwave to upload the files.

Here is what My link looks like

<%= link_to document.name,"#{document.file}"%>

Answer 1

@Stefan answered this in the comments.

in Gemfile:

gem 'mime-types'

in the uploader file generated by carrierwave:

require 'carrierwave/processing/mime_types'

class MyUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
  include CarrierWave::MimeTypes

  process :set_content_type
end