Built-in var. action_name for controllers?

Rails
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All,

In the Recipes for Rails Authentication recipe, there is a variable
named action_name that’s used to represent the current action.

Where does this come from?

Is there a similar variable for the current controller?

Thanks,
Wes

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Wes G. wrote:

In the Recipes for Rails Authentication recipe, there is a variable
named action_name that’s used to represent the current action.

Where does this come from?

It’s an attribute of ActionController.

Is there a similar variable for the current controller?

controller_name also an attribute of ActionContoller

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Ray