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Rails: How to disable turbolinks in Rails 5?

It's a constant headache when dealing with websockets, and it kills my performance in addition to adding bugs. Since ActionCable is the whole reason I upgraded I'd very much like to get rid of it completely.

Solution

  • The following was copied from here. It's for Rails 4, but I believe the steps are the same.

    1. Remove the gem 'turbolinks' line from Gemfile.

    2. Remove the //= require turbolinks from app/assets/javascripts/application.js.

    3. Remove the two "data-turbolinks-track" => true hash key/value pairs from app/views/layouts/application.html.erb.

    Edit: As of at least Rails 5 the last step should refer to "data-turbolinks-track" => "reload" as opposed to "data-turbolinks-track" => true. Thanks to @boddhisattva

    Edit: As of at least Rails 4.2 you can generate a project without turbolinks to begin with. Just use something like this:

    rails new my_app --skip-turbolinks