From 403c57aec052d60431dbae57eedae471d548dd01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafael=20Mendon=C3=A7a=20Fran=C3=A7a?= Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 20:07:27 -0300 Subject: Update the rendering guide to match the current behavior In the latest security releases render with a trailing slash no more call render :file. Also add a note about the security implications of using it with user parameters. --- guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md') diff --git a/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md b/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md index 614ca4dbe1..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 -- cgit v1.2.3