Download file on click - Ruby on Rails

Question

My application is using Rails 2 backend, Heroku for hosting, Paperclip for file uploads, and Amazon S3 for file storage.

Right now users can upload files with paperclip

Answer 1

Please try the following:

class Test < ActiveRecord::Base

  has_attached_file :testfile, 
    :storage => :s3,
    # All your S3 config
    :s3_headers => {"Content-Disposition" => "attachment"}

end

This should tell the Paperclip Gem to set the "Content-Disposition" header to the value "attachment" for newly uploaded files.

Note that you have to manually edit the already uploaded file, e.g. with Cyberduck or another FTP Client.