Retrieve the controller name from a class name

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3.0.7 and I would like to retrieve a controller name given a class name. That is, I have

Articles::Category

and I would like to retrieve

articles/categories

I would like to retrieve the controller name inside a view file not related to the Articles::Categories controller.

How can I do that (possibly using some Ruby on Rails core method)?

Answer 1

Articles::Category.name.underscore.pluralize
=> "articles/categories"

As mentioned by many others, there is no special method for that. But as long as you followed Rails conventions, this approach will take you far.