Rails - May 2005 - How to find out the controller and action names

Hi,

Could someone tell me the best way to get the controller and action
names from within the actual method? For example:

class UserController < ApplicationController
  def list
    # print the controller and action name, ie. "user/list"
  end
end

I considered extracting it from the URI, however I''m hoping there
might be a more general/accurate method?

Thanks,
Ben

@controller.controller_name will return a nicely formatted version of
the current controller name, and @controller.action_name will return
the current action name.

#controller_name:
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000149

#action_name:
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000157

good luck,
cb

On 5/22/05, Ben Myles <ben.myles-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could someone tell me the best way to get the controller and action
> names from within the actual method? For example:
> 
> class UserController < ApplicationController
>   def list
>     # print the controller and action name, ie. "user/list"
>   end
> end
> 
> I considered extracting it from the URI, however I''m hoping there
> might be a more general/accurate method?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
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