How to download a CSV file in Ruby on Rails?

Question

In my InvoicesController I have this:

def index
  @invoices = current_user.invoices
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html
    format.xls
    form         


        

Answer 1

Try this

format.csv do
  response.headers["Content-Type"] = "text/csv; charset=UTF-8; header=present"
  response.headers["Content-Disposition"] = "attachment; filename=invoices.csv"
end