Rails 3, find current view while in the layout

Question

I have a scenario where I would like to have the name of the view that will be rendering while I\'m in the layout file. I can find solutions to find which layout will be wra

Answer 1

I like the following approach, as you can reduce code size a good bit in a lot of cases. Include this in your application_controller.rb:

  before_filter :instantiate_controller_and_action_names
  caches_action :instantiate_controller_and_action_names

  def instantiate_controller_and_action_names
    @current_action = action_name
    @current_controller = controller_name
  end

Then, if your views correspond to an action, you just do:

dosomething if @current_action == 'new'