Rails 3: how to render text file in-line?

Question

All.

A Rails n00b here...

I'm writing an application that reports the status of a transaction. Some of the content in the rendered HTML comes from instance variables initialized in the controller, while other content comes from text files (e.g., log files) that I want to render in the HTML using <pre> tags.

What is the "Rails Way" to do this?

Thank you for your time...

Answer 1

<pre>
    <%= render :file => '/tmp/test.log' %>
</pre>

Answer 2

Here you go: http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html