In my rails 3 app I use fastercsv to create a csv file to screen, works great now… but how do I instead have it open a dialog to save the file to the user’s local system?
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In my rails 3 app I use fastercsv to create a csv file to screen, works great now… but how do I instead have it open a dialog to save the file to the user’s local system?
Check out this SO answer (the one with 19 upvotes, not the accepted answer): in rails, how to return records as a csv file
The key is sending the file with the
headers['Content-Disposition']