added CSRF helper to rails guide documentation. Closes #11615. [ci skip]

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/guides/source/action_view_overview.md b/guides/source/action_view_overview.md
index 6a355a5177..f31bc4552c 100644
--- a/guides/source/action_view_overview.md
+++ b/guides/source/action_view_overview.md
@@ -1550,7 +1550,7 @@ end
 
 Sanitizes a block of CSS code.
 
-#### strip_links(html) 
+#### strip_links(html)
 Strips all link tags from text leaving just the link text.
 
 ```ruby
@@ -1568,9 +1568,9 @@ strip_links('Blog: <a href="http://myblog.com/">Visit</a>.')
 # => Blog: Visit.
 ```
 
-#### strip_tags(html) 
+#### strip_tags(html)
 
-Strips all HTML tags from the html, including comments. 
+Strips all HTML tags from the html, including comments.
 This uses the html-scanner tokenizer and so its HTML parsing ability is limited by that of html-scanner.
 
 ```ruby
@@ -1585,6 +1585,22 @@ strip_tags("<b>Bold</b> no more!  <a href='more.html'>See more</a>")
 
 NB: The output may still contain unescaped '<', '>', '&' characters and confuse browsers.
 
+### CsrfHelper
+
+Returns meta tags "csrf-param" and "csrf-token" with the name of the cross-site
+request forgery protection parameter and token, respectively.
+
+```html
+  <%= csrf_meta_tags %>
+```
+
+These are used to generate the dynamic forms that implement non-remote links
+with `:method`.
+
+Note that regular forms generate hidden fields, and that Ajax calls are
+whitelisted, so they do not use these tags.
+
+More details can be found in the [Rails Security Guide](security.html).
 
 Localized Views
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