[Rails] Re: double render problem

On Jun 6, 8:10 pm, Bob Smith <bsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to print a report as a pdf, which uses the render method.
> This works fine. The problem comes at the end when I try to redirect
> to the index page, which causes the double render. I'm sure there's a
> way around this, but I'm coming up blank. If I remember right, there
> was a method that acted almost like redirect_to, but wouldn't cause
> the error. Please help...
>
I don't think you do - there can only be a single response to an http
request, so you can't both provide a file and show a response (unless
perhaps you were to do something like have your "success" page include
an iframe with the actual download)

Fred

Fred
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