How to get request’s target controller and action with Rails 3?

by 
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :authenticate

  def authenticate
    # How do we know which controller and action was targetted?
    params[:controller]
    params[:action]
    # OR
    controller.controller_name
    controller.action_name    
  end
end

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