Rails - controller action name to string

Question

Rails 2.X: @controller.action_name

Rails 3.1.X: controller.action_name, action_name

Rails 4.X: action_name

In the specific case of a Rails action (as opposed to the general case of getting the current method name) you can use params[:action]

Alternatively you might want to look into customising the Rails log format so that the action/method name is included by the format rather than it being in your log message.

controller name:

<%= controller.controller_name %>

return => 'users'

action name:

<%= controller.action_name %>

return => 'show'

id:

<%= ActionController::Routing::Routes.recognize_path(request.url)[:id] %>

return => '23'

This snippet works for Rails 3

class ReportsController < ApplicationController

  def summary
    logger.debug self.class.to_s + "." + self.action_name
  end

end

will print

. . .
ReportsController.summary
. . .

mikej's answer was very precise and helpful, but the the thing i also wanted to know was how to get current method name in rails.

found out it's possible with self.current_method

easily found at http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/75258