Hi, Maybe you should try render_optional_error_file
Jan * [email protected] <[email protected]> [2009-02-04 13:52:59 -0800]: > > Hey all, > > I am writing a plugin in which I want to stop the rendering of an > action with an unauthorized response if the user is not authorized to > view the resource. I am using a before filter to achieve this and > inside that before filter I do it like so: > > render :text => "Unauthorized!", :status => :unauthorized, :layout > => false > > The status is properly set since I see the following in the log: > > Filter chain halted as [:check_access] rendered_or_redirected. > Completed in 130ms (View: 0, DB: 10) | 401 Unauthorized > > So far so good. What I would like to do is to show a user a nice > (static html) error page so he knows what went wrong. Taking my cue > from the rails documentation, I created a file named 401.html and > placed it into the public/ directory of the rails app. However, > instead of this static html file I see the "Unauthorized!" text being > rendered. > > I also went into the rails source and tweaked the rescue module a bit > so that I surely get the 'public' view of the exception: > > def rescue_action_without_handler(exception) > (...) > > if false && (consider_all_requests_local || local_request?) # > here > rescue_action_locally(exception) > else > rescue_action_in_public(exception) > end > (...) > > That did not change anything, either. Am I not doing the proper thing? > Should I throw an exception (which one?) instead of rendering > something and setting the http status code of the response? Or is > rendering from before_filters a syntactic vinegar type of thing? > (probably not). > > Thank you for your help in advance, > Balint > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- jan=callcc{|jan|jan};jan.call(jan)
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