How to return truly empty body in rails? i.e. content-length 0

Question

I\'m trying to return a 200 status with an empty body but rails returns a body with a single space. i.e. content-length 1

For instance, this code generates a body wi

Answer 1

This appears to work

render :text => ""

For Rails 3, you could use:

render :nothing => true

In Rails 5, render :nothing => true is deprecated (planned for removal in 5.1)

Use

def action
  head :ok
end

Credit to this question for the Rails 5 solution.