diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index abdca69c..8cd13375 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ gem 'faye-websocket'
 gem 'nokogiri'
 gem 'd3-rails'
 gem 'rest-client'
+gem 'rubyzip'
 
 group :development do
   gem 'better_errors', platform: :ruby
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 9f115474..e440fd0b 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   rubocop
   rubocop-rspec
   rubytree
+  rubyzip
   sass-rails (~> 4.0.3)
   sdoc (~> 0.4.0)
   selenium-webdriver
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/editor.js.erb b/app/assets/javascripts/editor.js.erb
index 658ff3cd..a8297cfe 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/editor.js.erb
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/editor.js.erb
@@ -179,7 +179,10 @@ $(function() {
   var downloadCode = function(event) {
     event.preventDefault();
     createSubmission(this, null,function(response) {
-      var url = response.download_url.replace(FILENAME_URL_PLACEHOLDER, active_file.filename);
+      var url = response.download_url;
+
+      // to download just a single file, use the following url
+      //var url = response.download_file_url.replace(FILENAME_URL_PLACEHOLDER, active_file.filename);
       window.location = url;
     });
   };
diff --git a/app/controllers/submissions_controller.rb b/app/controllers/submissions_controller.rb
index 4f9d6a5b..a59c17cc 100644
--- a/app/controllers/submissions_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/submissions_controller.rb
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ class SubmissionsController < ApplicationController
   include SubmissionScoring
   include Tubesock::Hijack
 
-  before_action :set_submission, only: [:download_file, :render_file, :run, :score, :show, :statistics, :stop, :test]
+  before_action :set_submission, only: [:download, :download_file, :render_file, :run, :score, :show, :statistics, :stop, :test]
   before_action :set_docker_client, only: [:run, :test]
-  before_action :set_files, only: [:download_file, :render_file, :show]
+  before_action :set_files, only: [:download, :download_file, :render_file, :show]
   before_action :set_file, only: [:download_file, :render_file]
   before_action :set_mime_type, only: [:download_file, :render_file]
   skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token, only: [:download_file, :render_file]
@@ -53,6 +53,20 @@ class SubmissionsController < ApplicationController
     end
   end
 
+  def download
+    # files = @submission.files.map{ }
+    # zipline( files, 'submission.zip')
+    # send_data(@file.content, filename: @file.name_with_extension)
+    require 'zip'
+    stringio = Zip::OutputStream.write_buffer do |zio|
+      @files.each do |file|
+        zio.put_next_entry(file.name_with_extension)
+        zio.write(file.content)
+      end
+    end
+    send_data(stringio.string, filename: @submission.exercise.title.tr(" ", "_") + ".zip")
+  end
+
   def download_file
     if @file.native_file?
       send_file(@file.native_file.path)
diff --git a/app/models/submission.rb b/app/models/submission.rb
index 28e98555..5a95587f 100644
--- a/app/models/submission.rb
+++ b/app/models/submission.rb
@@ -28,13 +28,17 @@ class Submission < ActiveRecord::Base
     ancestors.merge(descendants).values
   end
 
-  [:download, :render, :run, :test].each do |action|
+  [:download_file, :render, :run, :test].each do |action|
     filename = FILENAME_URL_PLACEHOLDER.gsub(/\W/, '')
     define_method("#{action}_url") do
       Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.send(:"#{action}_submission_path", self, filename).sub(filename, FILENAME_URL_PLACEHOLDER)
     end
   end
 
+  def download_url
+    Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.send(:download_submission_path, self)
+  end
+
   def main_file
     collect_files.detect(&:main_file?)
   end
diff --git a/app/policies/submission_policy.rb b/app/policies/submission_policy.rb
index 18d39f4c..861f5695 100644
--- a/app/policies/submission_policy.rb
+++ b/app/policies/submission_policy.rb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ class SubmissionPolicy < ApplicationPolicy
     everyone
   end
 
-  [:download_file?, :render_file?, :run?, :score?, :show?, :statistics?, :stop?, :test?].each do |action|
+  [:download?, :download_file?, :render_file?, :run?, :score?, :show?, :statistics?, :stop?, :test?].each do |action|
     define_method(action) { admin? || author? }
   end
 
diff --git a/app/views/submissions/show.json.jbuilder b/app/views/submissions/show.json.jbuilder
index f137f874..3b860684 100644
--- a/app/views/submissions/show.json.jbuilder
+++ b/app/views/submissions/show.json.jbuilder
@@ -1 +1 @@
-json.extract! @submission, :download_url, :id, :score_url, :render_url, :run_url, :stop_url, :test_url, :files
+json.extract! @submission, :download_url, :download_file_url, :id, :score_url, :render_url, :run_url, :stop_url, :test_url, :files
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index f13d1c9f..b9f33826 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ Rails.application.routes.draw do
 
   resources :submissions, only: [:create, :index, :show] do
     member do
-      get 'download/:filename', as: :download, constraints: {filename: FILENAME_REGEXP}, to: :download_file
+      get 'download', as: :download, to: :download
+      get 'download/:filename', as: :download_file, constraints: {filename: FILENAME_REGEXP}, to: :download_file
       get 'render/:filename', as: :render, constraints: {filename: FILENAME_REGEXP}, to: :render_file
       get 'run/:filename', as: :run, constraints: {filename: FILENAME_REGEXP}, to: :run
       get :score