Extract controller name from URL

Rails
1

Is there a way of extracing controller name from a URL?

2

I don’t think so because the url could be completely different from
the controller path because of routes. There’s
‘controller.controller_name’ or ‘controller.controller_path’ (http://
ActionController::Base) which
you can use to figure which controller’s being used from within the
app…

3

My situation is slightly different. I want to look at
request.env[‘HTTP_REFERER’] and take a different action based on what
is stored in it. For example if the URL belongs to controller a, then
take one action and if its controller b then take a different action.

4

params[:controller] will give you the controller name.
params[:action] will give you the action name.

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