ActionController without rails?

Hey all, does ActionController have capabilities to work without rails?
How could get actioncontroller to process all the same things that it
does in rails but without rails essentially…

class TestController < ActionController::Base
before_filter :test
def test
puts ‘t’
end

def uh
puts ‘h’
end
end
t = TestController.new

Does ActionController have a method I can call to call a target method
(uh), and have it process everything else normally, like filters and
such.

I’ve been reading the actioncontroller source and don’t really see
anything obvious

thanks