Rails - Aug 2005 - firing a controller's method with IRB?

I''m in IRB and I want to fire a controller''s method. How do I
do it
(no breakpoint please!)?

class SiteController < ApplicationController
  def late_employee
    "your fired!"
  end
end

Show me how to fire my late_employee!

Thanks!

Ben

On Aug 6, 2005, at 12:59 PM, BenJamin Prater wrote:
> I''m in IRB and I want to fire a controller''s method. How
do I do it
> (no breakpoint please!)?
>
> class SiteController < ApplicationController
>   def late_employee
>     "your fired!"
>   end
> end
>
> Show me how to fire my late_employee!
>
This was an interesting puzzle.  I''m still not sure I''ve got
the best
way to do this, but here is *A* way to do it (output from irb removed):

ruby script/console

irb> require ''action_controller/test_process''
irb> require ''application''
irb> require ''site_controller''
irb> request = ActionController::TestRequest.new
irb> response = ActionController::TestResponse.new
irb> request.env[''REQUEST_METHOD''] =
''GET''
irb> request.action = "late_employee"
irb> InfoController.process(request,response)

To figure this out, I went to actionpack/lib/action_controller/ 
test_process.rb

Anyone else have a better way?
> Thanks!
>
> Ben
>
Good luck :)

Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)