Question

Our rails app is designed as a single code base linking to multiple client databases. Based on the subdomain the app determines which db to connect to.

We use liquid templates to customise the presentation for each client. We are unable to customise the generic ‘We’re Sorry, somethign went wrong..’ message for each client.

Can anyone recommend an approach that would allow us to do this.

Thanks

DOm

Answer 1

For catching exceptions in Rails 2, rescue_from controller method is a great way to specify actions which handle various cases.

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base   rescue_from MyAppError, :with => :show_errors    def show_errors     render :action => '...'   end end 

This way you can make dynamic error pages to replace the static ‘public/500.html’ page.