Question

Is there a field or method I can lookup within an .html.erb file that will tell me the current action used to render the page? This code would be in a partial. I’m looking for something like this:

<% if @action == :new %>
  this is new
<% end %>

Answer 1

Yes, you have action_name and controller_name for this purpose.

But note: the result is a string, not a symbol.

See the explanation.