Question

There might be a better way to do this, but I’m trying to make an if statement in rails, based on the current action, in a controller (this will be used in a view).

For example, if its the edit page, or the show page, etc. I’d like a different style for something – is there an if statement that can specify this?

(I need an if statement, because its used in a partial, on multiple pages).

Thanks!

Elliot

Answer 1

The params hash that is available in the controller contains :controller and :action keys, which specify the controller and action names of the request.

Therefore you could say

if params[:action] == "foo"
  # Show stuff for action 'foo'
elsif params[:action] == "bar"
  # Show stuff for action 'bar'
elsif ...
  # etc.
end