How to get request's target controller and action with Rails 3?

Question

In the application controller before filter.

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :authenticate

  def authenticate
    # How          


        

Answer 1

You can get full url object using

url = Rails.application.routes.recognize_path(request.env['PATH_INFO'])

now you can get components as

url[:controller]

url[:action]

By default you can also use params[:controller] and params[:action] respectively during request/response life cycle.