remove PublicsController completely

app/controllers/publics_controller.rb

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
-#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
-#   the COPYRIGHT file.
-
-class PublicsController < ApplicationController
-  include Diaspora::Parser
-
-  skip_before_action :set_header_data
-  skip_before_action :set_grammatical_gender
-  before_action :authenticate_user!, :only => [:index]
-
-  respond_to :html
-  respond_to :xml, :only => :post
-
-  layout false
-
-  def hub
-    render :text => params['hub.challenge'], :status => 202, :layout => false
-  end
-end

config/routes.rb

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Diaspora::Application.routes.draw do
     mount Sidekiq::Web => '/sidekiq', :as => 'sidekiq'
   end
 
+  # Federation
   mount DiasporaFederation::Engine => "/"
 
   get "/atom.xml" => redirect('http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/feed/atom') #too many stupid redirects :()
@@ -182,15 +183,6 @@ Diaspora::Application.routes.draw do
   get '/u/:username' => 'people#show', :as => 'user_profile', :constraints => { :username => /[^\/]+/ }
   get '/u/:username/profile_photo' => 'users#user_photo', :constraints => { :username => /[^\/]+/ }
 
-
-  # Federation
-
-  controller :publics do
-    get "hub" => :hub
-  end
-
-
-
   # External
 
   resources :services, :only => [:index, :destroy]

spec/controllers/publics_controller_spec.rb

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
-#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
-#   the COPYRIGHT file.
-
-require 'spec_helper'
-
-describe PublicsController, :type => :controller do
-  describe '#hub' do
-    it 'succeeds' do
-      get :hub
-      expect(response).to be_success
-    end
-  end
-end