From: Shaun McDonald <shaun@shaunmcdonald.me.uk>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:11:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Make the report_error function support any http status code for added flexibility.
X-Git-Tag: live~7580
X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/commitdiff_plain/788e817e4a8d9364827b12d77cdb82971b7e74b1?ds=sidebyside

Make the report_error function support any http status code for added flexibility.
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diff --git a/app/controllers/application.rb b/app/controllers/application.rb
index 3d8a02810..5e50a503e 100644
--- a/app/controllers/application.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application.rb
@@ -95,10 +95,10 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   #  rather than only a status code and having the web engine make up a 
   #  phrase from that, we can also put the error message into the status
   #  message. For now, rails won't let us)
-  def report_error(message)
+  def report_error(message, status = :bad_request)
     # Todo: some sort of escaping of problem characters in the message
     response.headers['Error'] = message
-    render :text => message, :status => :bad_request
+    render :text => message, :status => status
   end
 
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