Knowing which controller or method triggered view layout rendering

action contains this information. action.node holds the Controller class name, and action.method the Controller's method. However, action.method is not available in view and layout, so if you really need them, you'll have to save the value in your controller.

For instance :

class Controller < Ramaze::Controller
  before_all do
    @caller = { :controller => action.node, 
                :method => action.method }
  end
end

Then, if your controllers inherit Controller, you'll have access to the @caller hash with :controller and :method entries in all your views and layouts.