`ActionController::Base#render :nothing => true` still whines about "missing template"

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In FooController, I put method #bar whose only purpose is to run some logic in the background and return a status 204 [1].

So in order to return only the 204 status code, I put at the end of #bar:

`render :nothing => true, :status => 204`

But then when surfing to /foo/bar, I get an error about "missing template bar.rhtml". Is this a bug?

(The solution eventually was `render :text => ''`, but it really seems like a hack and that `render => :nothing` should have been the valid solution)

-Chris

[1] HTTP/1.1: Status Code Definitions - "204 No Content: The server has fulfilled the request but does not need to return an entity-body"