Question

How do I get an action’s controller name?

For example if I have an action called ‘show’, is there a way to get the name of the controller that this action ‘show’ belongs to?
e.g. show.controller_name

Answer 1

First, You need to know the MVC workflow of your application.

Secondly, you need to know that where in this MVC workflow are you wanting this controller name to be known for a particular action.

And third, then do:

Try this in a controller:

self.class.to_s

This will return the controller name for the request you made.

You can use filters in a controller to call this in turn to get the controller name.