Ruby on Rails

On Dec 25, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Ralph Shnelvar wrote:

> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #970622:
>> By automatically downloading, you are depriving the user of the
>> choice
>> of what he wants to do with that file. (You might want him to
>> download
>> it, but he might prefer to take a quick listen in the browser
>> before he
>> does so.). That's a UI mistake. Again, don't do it.
>
> Ok ... how do I allow them to do either? View locally or download,
> as
> the user sees fit?
>

Create two separate paths, and on one, force the download by setting
the file-type to application/binary or something equally un-playable.
On the other, let the file-type come naturally (default behavior). The
two different paths point to the same file, but one is kinked to
always be something that can't be played in a browser.

Walter

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