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-rwxr-xr-xactionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
index 38a255192e..e7fd6d8968 100755
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
@@ -597,6 +597,13 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
# # placed in "app/views/layouts/special.r(html|xml)"
# render :text => "Explosion!", :layout => "special"
#
+ # The :text option can also accept a Proc object, which can be used to manually control the page generation. This should
+ # generally be avoided, as it violates the separation between code and content, and because almost everything that can be
+ # done with this method can also be done more cleanly using one of the other rendering methods, most notably templates.
+ #
+ # # Renders "Hello from code!"
+ # render :text => proc { |response, output| output.write("Hello from code!") }
+ #
# _Deprecation_ _notice_: This used to have the signature <tt>render_text("text", status = 200)</tt>
#
# === Rendering an inline template