Question

Rails is doing my head in.

I’m trying now to put something together to pull screen scraped data from site X through to client Y via a ruby script on server Z

I don’t want views, I just want the request to look like domain.com/action/method

Inside routes.rb I have:

match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))'

But it still won’t work. I just get ActionView::MissingTemplate in the log.

Achtung!

If I deliberately put a faulty method in that subsequently calls render – the log file indicates the method executed badly, so I don’t think it’s something wrong with the “action” controller.

Update

Dreamhost’s configuration needed me to specify ‘:layout => false’

Answer 1

So what do you want the app to respond with, if not something from a view? You can manually respond with a string like so:

def index
  render :text => "Hi from the #{controller_name} controller!"
end