Ruby on Rails: Action without View

Question

I have what I think is a very simple problem. I\'m coming from a PhP background, and used to do this all the time, so I may be looking at this the wrong way.

I am trying

Answer 1

Have a look at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html#using-render

You might need render :nothing => true

EDIT: misread your question, render :text => "yourtext" should fit your needs