added recipe for rendering static files manually

mojolicious · Dec 2, 2012 · 2a9d917 · 2a9d917
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@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 
+3.65  2012-12-03
+  - Improved documentation.
+
 3.64  2012-12-01
   - Improved documentation.
   - Improved tests.

diff --git a/lib/Mojolicious.pm b/lib/Mojolicious.pm
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ has static   => sub { Mojolicious::Static->new };
 has types    => sub { Mojolicious::Types->new };
 
 our $CODENAME = 'Rainbow';
-our $VERSION  = '3.64';
+our $VERSION  = '3.65';
 
 sub AUTOLOAD {
   my $self = shift;

diff --git a/lib/Mojolicious/Guides/Rendering.pod b/lib/Mojolicious/Guides/Rendering.pod
@@ -771,6 +771,14 @@ plugin.
 
 Less commonly used and more powerful features.
 
+=head2 Rendering static files
+
+You can manually render static files from your C<public> directories with
+L<Mojolicious::Controller/"render_static">.
+
+  $self->res->headers->content_disposition('attachment; filename=bar.png;');
+  $self->render_static('foo/bar.png');
+
 =head2 Chunked transfer encoding
 
 For very dynamic content you might not know the response C<Content-Length> in