How to disable Turbolinks in a specific page?
You can use this oneliner in your layout:
<body <%= "data-no-turbolinks='true'".html_safe if controller_name=="pages" && action_name=="policy" %>>But the other way to do it, which I use mostly, would be to put this chunk of code to the links leading to this page...
So, let's suppose your route is named :policy, you should do this:
<%= link_to "Policy", policy_path, :"data-no-turbolink" => true %>Long time has gone, here is an update
Recently, I have started using turbolinks 5.0 beta, by:
gem 'turbolinks', '~> 5.0.0.beta'It gets far easier... All document ready javascript gets loaded, no problem... All you have to do is add a listener to the load event.
$(document).on('turbolinks:load', named_function );var named_function = function() { // thinks to do on document load}You don't have to also add
$(document).ready(function (){ // stuff});or
$(document).ready(named_function);Because Turbolinks will gracefully fall back to document load if the page is hard loaded.
For turbolinks 5 if you use this method mentioned above:
<%= link_to "Policy", policy_path, :"data-no-turbolink" => true %>You'll need to change it to:
<%= link_to "Policy", policy_path, :"data-turbolinks" => false %>
I tried the other methods mentioned here to no avail, but from the Turbolinks 5 docs, you can insert this meta tag on the page that you want to always load without Turbolinks.
<meta name="turbolinks-visit-control" content="reload">Adding a data attribute to all links means that you have to know where all those links are, which is brittle if you have a situation where there might be inline links in user-created content.
The body tag data attribute method didn't work for me as I'd expect it to - I'd have assumed that loading a turbolinks-supported page and then clicking a link to go to a page where you want to disable turbolinks would result in a full, standard page load. That didn't seem to be the case, especially with back button or history navigation.
Adding this meta tag forces Turbolinks 5 to do a full page reload before it attempts to insert any content into the dom. You get that classic flash of a blank page, but if like me, you're using external Javascript that needs to fire without interference from Turbolinks, that's the desired behaviour.