Rails, use the content of file in the controller

Question

I've a file in the config directory, let's say my_policy.txt. I want to use the content of that file in my controller like a simple string.

@policy = #content of /config/my_policy.txt

How to achieve that goal, does Rails provide its own way to do that?

Thanks

Answer 1

Rails doesn't provide a way, but Ruby does:

@policy = IO.read("#{Rails.root}\config\my_policy.txt")