Question

I have an action that searches records based on a url parameter. The url for the action looks something like this:

http://domain.com/records/filter/<filtercode>

If the user enters an incorrect filtercode, I would like to app to

• raise an error so that Hoptoad will report to error to me.
• render a 404 instead of a 500 in production env.

I understand that certain Rails errors such as ActiveRecord::NotFound and ActionController:RoutingError will render 404 in production env. So what I like to do is raise this error when a user enters an invalid filtercode in the url.

Now, my question: what’s the ideal error to raise in this type of situation? Is there a list of Rails errors/exceptions in the net?

Answer 1

If it searches records and doesn’t find any the logical way would be to use the ActiveRecord::NotFound wouldn’t it?