WARNING: the gem version that Github currently serves is faulty. The issue
is already fixes in the repository, but Github is not yet building new gem
versions. As soon as this is fixed, I will release a new version that resolves
the issue. For now, install version 0.1.5 which is unaffected:
sudo gem install wvanbergen-http_status_exceptions \
--source http://gems.github.com --version "= 0.1.5"
= HTTP status exception
This simple plugin will register exception classes for all HTTP status. These exceptions can then be raised from your controllers, after
which a response will be send back to the client with the desired HTTP status, possible with some other content.
You can use this plugin to access control mechanisms. You can simply raise a HTTPStatus::Forbidden if a user is not allowed to
perform a certain action. A nice looking error page will be the result. See the example below:
See the project wiki (http://github.com/wvanbergen/http_status_exceptions/wikis) for additional documentation.
== Installation
Installation is simple. Simply add the gem in your environment.rb:
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
...
config.gem 'wvanbergen-http_status_exceptions', :lib => 'http_status_exceptions', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'
end
Run rake gems:install to install the gem if needed.
== Configuration
You can modify where HTTP status exception looks for its template files like so:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
...
HTTPStatus::Base.template_path = 'path_to/http_status_templates'
end
You can also modify which layout is used when rendering a template by setting the template_layout:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
...
HTTPStatus::Base.template_layout = 'exception'
end
If you don't set a template_layout the current layout for the requested action will be used.
== Usage
class BlogController < ApplicationController
def destroy
raise HTTPStatus::Forbidden, 'You cannot delete blogs!' unless current_user.can_delete_blogs?
@blog.destroy
end
end
By default, this will return an empty response with the "forbidden" status code (403). If you want to add content
to the response as well, create the following view: shared/http_status/forbidden.html.erb. You can use the
@exception-object in your view:
Forbidden
<%= h(@exception.message) %>
HTTP status code <%= @exception.status_code %>: <%= @exception.status.to_s.humanize %>
The response will only be sent if the request format is HTML because of the name of the view file. In theory you
could make a response for XML requests as well by using shared/http_status/forbidden.xml.builder as filename