Question

in a controller i can use request and params methods.

i know each controller is inheriting from ActionController::Base.

however, i cannot find these 2 methods in the api documentation for ActionController::Base http://api.rubyonrails.org

where are these methods defined? it would be great to know ALL methods that i can use in a controller.

thanks

Answer 1

request and params in ActionController:Base are shortcuts to the ActionController::Request object and its parameters method. It isn’t well-documented, but you can see that by looking at the code for ActionController::Base.

Knowing that, you can find the documentation for these methods here:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Request.html