How do I get the list of actions available for a controller?

Question

I did MyController.methods and it listed EVERYTHING... things I didn't even know controllers could do!

How do I return the list of actions, such as create, edit, new, destroy, other_action, other_non_protected_or_private_method?

Using Ruby on Rails 2.3.8

Answer 1

Use #instance_methods(false) to retrieve only controller's specific actions:

CustomController.instance_methods(false)
=> ["index", "update", "show", "custom_action", "another_action"]

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Not sure if this will work in 2.38 but I figured it was worth a shot:

To quote the relevant part:

To get all the actions in a controller, use action_methods

PostsController.action_methods

This will return a Set containing a list of all of the methods in your controller that are "actions" (using the same logic Rails uses to decide whether a method is a valid action to route to).