send_file just sends an empty file

Question

Im looking for a way to download a xml file. I use:

file_path = 'folder/' + xml_name + '.xml'
send_file file_path, :type => "text/xml"

but this always downloads me an empty file. The file itself has 16 KB of data in it...

why is that?

Maechi

Answer 1

probably you have to comment out

config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile"

in production.rb

see http://vijaydev.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/rails-3-and-apache-x-sendfile/ for explanations