Question

I’ve got a simple Rails application running as a splash page for a website that’s going through a transition to a new server. Since this is an established website, I’m seeing user requests hitting pages that don’t exist in the Rails application.

How can I redirect all unknown requests to the homepage instead of throwing a routing error?

Answer 1

I just used route globbing to achieve this:

map.connect "/*other", :controller => "pages", :action => "index"

Note that this route should be at the end of routes.rb so that all other routes are matched before it.