Private Actions that have Views aren't that private

Rails
1

Hello

If a certain action in a certain controller is private it should
return an “Unknown action” error if you type its path in the browser.
But if it has a corresponding view, the browser actually shows the
view. Why is that so?

2

On 8 Oct 2007, at 00:05, Onildo wrote:

Hello

If a certain action in a certain controller is private it should
return an “Unknown action” error if you type its path in the browser.
But if it has a corresponding view, the browser actually shows the
view. Why is that so?

Because ActionController basically does

if self.class.public_methods.include?(method)
#perform the action
elsif template_exists?(method)
#render template
else
raise ‘Unknown action’
end

Fred

3

Yup. This is also true if there’s a template without a controller
method either.

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