Can I get the name of the current controller in the view?

Question

Is there a way to figure out what the current controller is from within the view?

For an example of why I would want to know this: if several controllers share the s

Answer 1

In the Rails Guides, it says:

The params hash will always contain the :controller and :action keys, but you should use the methods controller_name and action_name instead to access these values

ActionController Parameters

So let's say you have a CSS class active , that should be inserted in any link whose page is currently open (maybe so that you can style differently) . If you have a static_pages controller with an about action, you can then highlight the link like so in your view:

  
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