How to call expire_fragment from Rails Observer/Model?

Question

I\'ve pretty much tried everything, but it seems impossible to use expire_fragment from models? I know you\'re not supposed to and it\'s non-MVC, but surely there much be

Answer 1

I'm a bit of a rails noob, so this may not be correct, or even helpful, but it seems wrong to be trying to call controller actions from within the model.

Is it not possible to write an action within the controller that does what you want and then invoke the controller action from within your rake task?