Rails 4: disable Turbolinks in a specific page
Here's a cleaner solution:
In /app/views/layouts/application.html.erb, replace the <body> tag with this:
<body <% if content_for?(:body_attributes) %> <%= yield(:body_attributes) %> <% end %>>Now, if you want to disable turbolinks in a particular view, e.g. /app/views/home/index.html.erb, you can add this to the file:
for Rails 4
<% content_for(:body_attributes) do %> data-no-turbolink="true" <% end %>and that will end up rendering as:
<body data-no-turbolink="true">for Rails 5
In Rails 5, the syntax is slightly different:
<% content_for(:body_attributes) do %> data-turbolinks="false" <% end %>and that will end up rendering as:
<body data-turbolinks="false">
Add “data-no-turbolink” to the <body> tag of the the page you want it disabled on
If you have a shared layout file which i am assuming you do, you can do an if statement and check the params[:controller] and params[:action] and just add it to the one area
Edited Jan 2021: As pointed out by @weltschmerz under rails 5 data-turbolinks="false" is the preference.
Solutions on here didn't work for me, turns out Turbolinks changed the syntax for disabling Turbolinks on a single page in their new release (5.0.0).
To disable it on a page with Turbolinks 5.0.0+, add data-turbolinks="false" to the links of the page you want to disable:
<a href="/link" data-turbolinks="false">Page without Turbolinks</a>It also works on any of the links' ancestors, so in this example both links will lead to non-turbolinked pages:
<div data-turbolinks="false"> <a href="/link1">Page without Turbolinks</a> <a href="/link2">Another page without Turbolinks</a></div>To enable it on a single link with all the other links disabled in a specific element:
<div data-turbolinks="false"> <a href="/link1">Page without Turbolinks</a> <a href="/link2">Another page without Turbolinks</a> <a href="/link3" data-turbolinks="true">Page with Turbolinks enabled</a></div>I also tried adding it to the body of the page I want it disabled on, similar to the old method but with using data-turbolinks="false" instead of data-no-turbolink="true" - and that worked too!
Source: Turbolinks on GitHub