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Asked: 2026-05-27T23:25:37+00:00

I am working on a Ruby on Rails app which which has the following

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I am working on a Ruby on Rails app which which has the following path to view a user’s page

/pics/user/:id

:id being the generated id attribute. My question is that is the proper way for the the app to deal with a number that is not a user id in the place of :id.

The methods I was considering are; creating an Error page and redirect to it or redirecting to another page (in this case a page with the list of all the users) and generating an error message. Are either of these ideas correct, or should I do something else entirely?
My goal is to adhere to proper ruby on rails and web conventions as closely as possible.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Usually you will be doing Model.find(params[:id]) and that will raise ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound that is to make the web server send a 404 Not Found response.

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