CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-rails
igor_rb
igor_rb

Reputation: 1891

Action and method in Rails controller

In

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html

I read that

Rails creates an instance of that controller and runs the method with the same name as the action.

so i don't understand, what is difference between actions and public methods in controller. Actions and public methods in controller are not the same?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2528

Answers (3)

Medical Doctor - Programmer
Medical Doctor - Programmer

Reputation: 700

In other words, if the method is accessible to the public through the browser e.g. (.../index) then it is a "public method" and such methods are called "actions" in rails.

Upvotes: 0

Rajdeep Singh
Rajdeep Singh

Reputation: 17834

Action is also a method but it has a corresponding route, you can hit an action by using it's route but you can't call method an action if it doesn't have any route associated with it.

e.g. In rails new, index, create, show, update, delete and edit are default actions, because all these methods have routes associated with them. But if you define a method in the controller which is called by an action but it doesn't have any route associated with it then its a method but not an action.

Upvotes: 10

Yuki Matsukura
Yuki Matsukura

Reputation: 456

In the case of Ruby on Rails, public methods are equivalent to actions.

The term 'public methods' is term in ruby. 'actions' is term for Ruby on Rails.

Upvotes: 1

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