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

You'd need something like this:

def mcsubscribe
  # Do something to unsubscribe
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html { redirect_to(success_page) }
    format.js   { render :text => params[:email] }
  end  
end

If ajax is used, the params[:email] is send as text. If a HTML format is required (ie user clicked a link or filled in a regular form) a redirect is issued to tell the user the subscription has been successful.