Turbolinks can mess things up

[JohnSmall]

The latest version of Turbolinks will display the generated Excel file in the of the

Which is obviously not what's required. It took me hours to work it out but the link to your action to generate and download the Excel file needs to be

link_to 'download Excel',my_excel_path,data:{turbolinks: false}
So the documentation needs to be updated to reflect the new Turbolinks behaviour.

[straydogstudio]

Thanks for sharing this. I'll add a section on Turbolinks to the README.

Did it change with a newer version of Turbolinks, or did it work in the past?

[straydogstudio]

Turbolinks section added to troubleshooting in the Readme.