Question

I want to create a route such as

get '/referrals/send_invite/:email_address'

I will be calling this route via remote: true and GET. However if I issue the GET request in my browser, the route will still try to find a View, thus leading me to:

Template is missing

Is there a way that I could tell rails that the send_invite method in Referrals Controller doesn’t have a view associated?

I would hope that this could be accomplished by just using rails routes.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Not completely sure, but I am guessing you want to start the action send_invite so you are not interested in an actual result, correct?

You could do something like

def send_invite
  SomeMailer.mail(:email => params[:email_address])
  # or queue it or whatever
  head :ok
end

Note that that is not the only option, you could also do something like

render :text => "The mail has been sent to #{params[:email_address]}"

or

render :json => {:result => 'ok', :email_adress => params[:email_address]}

Also note this should be a POST, since this action is not idempotent (a GET should not have side-effects).

Hope this helps.