Ruby-on-rails – Rails – controller action name to string

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I have a Rails question.

How do I get a controller action's name inside the controller action?

For example, instead of

def create
  logger.info("create")
end

I want to write something like

def create
  logger.info(this_def_name)
end

What is a way to get this_def_name?

Best Answer

Rails 2.X: @controller.action_name

Rails 3.1.X: controller.action_name, action_name

Rails 4.X: action_name

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Python – How to get a function name as a string

my_function.__name__

Using __name__ is the preferred method as it applies uniformly. Unlike func_name, it works on built-in functions as well:

>>> import time
>>> time.time.func_name
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'func_name'
>>> time.time.__name__ 
'time'

Also the double underscores indicate to the reader this is a special attribute. As a bonus, classes and modules have a __name__ attribute too, so you only have remember one special name.

Ruby-on-rails – How to get the name of a Ruby class

You want to call .name on the object's class:

result.class.name

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