Rails - Oct 2007 - [n00b] How to do "direct action" URL => code, no render?

I''m not sure if Rails has this -- in other frameworks, it''s
called
"direct action" -- the idea being that a URL request triggers some
code
to run, but doesn''t result in a web-page being displayed.

So, for example, I might have a cron job that does:

  wget myApp.domain.com/email_stats

which triggers a notifier to send me email with some database
statistics, but I don''t want it to bother downloading a page.

I *could* do

  wget myApp.domain.com/email_stats > /dev/null

but that strikes me as cleaning up the mess after I make it, rather than
not making the mess in the first place.  So what I''m looking for is
some
sort of

   render => nil

or whatever that I can put at the end of my action to make it not render
a page.

Is that possible?

Thanks!
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There has to be some response, or you''ll be violating the HTTP
protocol.  However, that can be an empty string.

render :layout => false, :text => ""

that MIGHT work -- I have not tried the code.  :)

--Michael

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On 23 Oct 2007, at 17:22, Olie D. wrote:
>
> I''m not sure if Rails has this -- in other frameworks,
it''s called
> "direct action" -- the idea being that a URL request triggers
some
> code
> to run, but doesn''t result in a web-page being displayed.
>
> So, for example, I might have a cron job that does:
>
>   wget myApp.domain.com/email_stats
>
> which triggers a notifier to send me email with some database
> statistics, but I don''t want it to bother downloading a page.
>
> I *could* do
>
>   wget myApp.domain.com/email_stats > /dev/null
>
> but that strikes me as cleaning up the mess after I make it, rather  
> than
> not making the mess in the first place.  So what I''m looking for
is
> some
> sort of
>
>    render => nil
render :nothing => true

Fred