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.

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