When your Rails controller calls render, you can pass a :status option for the HTTP status code:

render 'results', status: 400

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All important status codes also have a symbol alias, which makes your code easier to read:

render 'results', status: :bad_request

Attached is a list Show archive.org snapshot of available symbol values for :status.