Responders now return 204 No Content for API requests without a response body (as in the new scaffold)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/responder.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/responder.rb
index c7827309dd..b932302a60 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/responder.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/responder.rb
@@ -202,10 +202,8 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
         display resource
       elsif post?
         display resource, :status => :created, :location => api_location
-      elsif has_empty_resource_definition?
-        display empty_resource, :status => :ok
       else
-        head :ok
+        head :no_content
       end
     end
 
@@ -269,24 +267,6 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
       @action ||= ACTIONS_FOR_VERBS[request.request_method_symbol]
     end
 
-    # Check whether resource needs a specific definition of empty resource to be valid
-    #
-    def has_empty_resource_definition?
-      respond_to?("empty_#{format}_resource")
-    end
-
-    # Delegate to proper empty resource method
-    #
-    def empty_resource
-      send("empty_#{format}_resource")
-    end
-
-    # Return a valid empty JSON resource
-    #
-    def empty_json_resource
-      "{}"
-    end
-
     def resource_errors
       respond_to?("#{format}_resource_errors") ? send("#{format}_resource_errors") : resource.errors
     end