Revert "ActionController::Base#process() now only takes an action name"

This reverts commit 9f93a5efbba3e1cbf0bfa700a17ec8d1ef60d7c6.

3 files changed, 22 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/actionpack/CHANGELOG.md b/actionpack/CHANGELOG.md
index 50b10e7460..4f95a9bab9 100644
--- a/actionpack/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/actionpack/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-*   ActionController::Base#process() now only takes an action name, rather
-    than an action name and *args.  The *args were not being used in regular
-    applications outside tests.
-
 *   Catch invalid UTF-8 querystring values and respond with BadRequest
 
     Check querystring params for invalid UTF-8 characters, and raise an
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb b/actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb
index c27b7b3836..4501202b8c 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ module AbstractController
     #
     # ==== Returns
     # * <tt>self</tt>
-    def process(action)
+    def process(action, *args)
       @_action_name = action.to_s
 
       unless action_name = _find_action_name(@_action_name)
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ module AbstractController
 
       @_response_body = nil
 
-      process_action(action_name)
+      process_action(action_name, *args)
     end
 
     # Delegates to the class' ::controller_path
diff --git a/actionpack/test/abstract/callbacks_test.rb b/actionpack/test/abstract/callbacks_test.rb
index b47aeaa08f..07571602e4 100644
--- a/actionpack/test/abstract/callbacks_test.rb
+++ b/actionpack/test/abstract/callbacks_test.rb
@@ -246,6 +246,26 @@ module AbstractController
       end
     end
 
+    class CallbacksWithArgs < ControllerWithCallbacks
+      set_callback :process_action, :before, :first
+
+      def first
+        @text = "Hello world"
+      end
+
+      def index(text)
+        self.response_body = @text + text
+      end
+    end
+
+    class TestCallbacksWithArgs < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+      test "callbacks still work when invoking process with multiple arguments" do
+        controller = CallbacksWithArgs.new
+        controller.process(:index, " Howdy!")
+        assert_equal "Hello world Howdy!", controller.response_body
+      end
+    end
+
     class AliasedCallbacks < ControllerWithCallbacks
       ActiveSupport::Deprecation.silence do
         before_filter :first