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authorRobin Dupret <robin.dupret@gmail.com>2015-01-02 20:22:39 +0100
committerRobin Dupret <robin.dupret@gmail.com>2015-01-02 20:26:39 +0100
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Follow up to #17973 [ci skip]
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diff --git a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
index e3a8f998a8..8d78ba13d5 100644
--- a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
+++ b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
@@ -857,20 +857,21 @@ module ActionView
#
# ==== Gotcha
#
- # The HTML specification says when nothing is select on a file field web browsers do not send any value to server.
- # Unfortunately this introduces a gotcha:
- # if an +User+ model has a +avatar+ field, and in the form none file is selected no +avatar+ parameter is sent. So,
- # any mass-assignment idiom like
+ # The HTML specification says that when a file field is empty, web browsers
+ # do not send any value to the server. Unfortunately this introduces a
+ # gotcha: if a +User+ model has an +avatar+ field, and no file is selected,
+ # then the +avatar+ parameter is empty. Thus, any mass-assignment idiom like
#
# @user.update(params[:user])
#
- # wouldn't update avatar.
+ # wouldn't update the +avatar+ field.
#
- # To prevent this the helper generates an auxiliary hidden field before
- # every file field. The hidden field has the same name as file field and blank value.
+ # To prevent this, the helper generates an auxiliary hidden field before
+ # every file field. The hidden field has the same name as the file one and
+ # a blank value.
#
- # In case if you don't want the helper to generate this hidden field you can specify
- # <tt>include_hidden: false</tt> option.
+ # In case you don't want the helper to generate this hidden field you can
+ # specify the <tt>include_hidden: false</tt> option.
def file_field(object_name, method, options = {})
Tags::FileField.new(object_name, method, self, options).render
end