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A couple of years ago, no objections were voiced to a proposed patch of ActionController that would allow controllers to have methods with the same names as Object''s methods (currently, ActionController::Base.hidden_actions, as called by action_methods, prevents this). Such a change is of interest to me since I just blew some time figuring out why rails wasn''t finding a ''clone'' method in one of my controllers. It would be nice to spare others the same. The 2005 discussion starts at htt...

...no longer worked. (As example it''s still existant in ctionpack-1.5.0/README). After a long search, I discovered that the reason is that ActionController::Base inherits from Object, and because there is Object#display it will no longer be called as an action. See ActionController::Base#hidden_actions. This implies that there are a _lot_ of reserved words, you cannot use as action names: ActionController::Base.public_instance_methods. These reserved words. moreover, are not guaranteed to be stable: every time some module gets included in the inheritance chain, od some module gets extende...

OK, call me crazy, but am I the first one to want to list out the actions that are available @ runtime? Anyone else come across this yet? Am I crazy? Well, yes, but... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.