RoR3 api documentation for all methods used in a controller?

Question

in a controller i can use request and params methods.

i know each controller is inheriting from ActionController::Base.

however, i cannot find these 2 methods in the api documentation for ActionController::Base http://api.rubyonrails.org

where are these methods defined? it would be great to know ALL methods that i can use in a controller.

thanks

Answer 1

Are you looking at the Rails 3 docs or the Rails 2 docs? I like to read the docs through this site: http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v3.0.0.beta.3_ruby-v1.9/

If you go to the root, it lets you set your version of rails and ruby, so you have the right doc stack, with a good search feature etc. Maybe that will help :)

Answer 2

request and params in ActionController:Base are shortcuts to the ActionController::Request object and its parameters method. It isn't well-documented, but you can see that by looking at the code for ActionController::Base.

Knowing that, you can find the documentation for these methods here:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Request.html