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diff --git a/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md b/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md index 83173e8d75..2722789c49 100644 --- a/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md +++ b/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md @@ -149,23 +149,22 @@ render template: "products/show" #### Rendering an Arbitrary File -The `render` method can also use a view that's entirely outside of your application (perhaps you're sharing views between two Rails applications): - -```ruby -render "/u/apps/warehouse_app/current/app/views/products/show" -``` - -Rails determines that this is a file render because of the leading slash character. To be explicit, you can use the `:file` option (which was required on Rails 2.2 and earlier): +The `render` method can also use a view that's entirely outside of your application: ```ruby render file: "/u/apps/warehouse_app/current/app/views/products/show" ``` -The `:file` option takes an absolute file-system path. Of course, you need to have rights to the view that you're using to render the content. +The `:file` option takes an absolute file-system path. Of course, you need to have rights +to the view that you're using to render the content. + +NOTE: Using the `:file` option in combination with users input can lead to security problems +since an attacker could use this action to access security sensitive files in your file system. NOTE: By default, the file is rendered using the current layout. -TIP: If you're running Rails on Microsoft Windows, you should use the `:file` option to render a file, because Windows filenames do not have the same format as Unix filenames. +TIP: If you're running Rails on Microsoft Windows, you should use the `:file` option to +render a file, because Windows filenames do not have the same format as Unix filenames. #### Wrapping it up @@ -238,7 +237,7 @@ TIP: This is useful when you're rendering a small snippet of HTML code. However, you might want to consider moving it to a template file if the markup is complex. -NOTE: When using `html:` option, HTML entities will be escaped if the string is not marked as HTML safe by using `html_safe` method. +NOTE: When using `html:` option, HTML entities will be escaped if the string is not marked as HTML safe by using `html_safe` method. #### Rendering JSON @@ -700,7 +699,7 @@ This would detect that there are no books with the specified ID, populate the `@ ### Using `head` To Build Header-Only Responses -The `head` method can be used to send responses with only headers to the browser. The `head` method accepts a number or symbol (see [reference table](#the-status-option)) representing a HTTP status code. The options argument is interpreted as a hash of header names and values. For example, you can return only an error header: +The `head` method can be used to send responses with only headers to the browser. The `head` method accepts a number or symbol (see [reference table](#the-status-option)) representing an HTTP status code. The options argument is interpreted as a hash of header names and values. For example, you can return only an error header: ```ruby head :bad_request |