best way to generate a text or csv file for user to download

rubyonrails-talk
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lo there all,

i need to be able to generate a link to a dynamically created text or csv file when a user hits a link or button ( don't know yet ). But since the file is going to be generated on the fly, i need an action to actually create it.

Does anyone have an idea of how the best way to do this would be?

thanks

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You’ll probably want to take a look at the send_file method:

http://rails.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Streaming.html#M000091

James.

3

Also you might find fastercsv useful:

http://fastercsv.rubyforge.org/

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thanks, gents, will check it out.