Question

Can firebug be used to show me which rails template is currently being viewed along with the method in the controller that calls the view in question?

Answer 1

Out of the box no.

But, you could send messages to Firebug from your serverside by returning console messages. You could put this perhaps in your layout application.html.erb for every request.

# application.html.erb
<script>
console.log("Controller: <%= controller.controller_name %>");
console.log("Action: <%= controller.action_name %>");
</script>

http://getfirebug.com/logging