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 do we know which controller and action was targetted?   end end 

Answer 1

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base   before_filter :authenticate    def authenticate     # How do we know which controller and action was targetted?     params[:controller]     params[:action]     # OR     controller.controller_name     controller.action_name       end end