Missing Template Should be 404 Error

I have a site I’m building that has the template dynamically chosen
based
upon some parameters of the request. There are cases where a nonexistent
template will be sent to the render method. For purposes of my
application,
this is not a serious, fatal error, but a simple HTTP 404 error code.
Unfortunately, Rails disagrees, and it’s sending a 500 error message in
production.

How can I override this behavior?

What is the justification for template missing to be treated as a 500
error
instead of 404 error?

http://6brand.com/rails-custom-404-pages

Aaron Longwell
escribió:

I have a site I’m building that has the template dynamically chosen based

That site is similar to a lot of other stuff I’ve seen. It appears that
catching missing method errors is a much more common problem than
catching
missing template errors.

I can’t use method_missing, because my error happens after the call to
render (after the correct action method has begun executing)… and I
don’t
believe template_missing exists… but I have found a (the?) solution.

As it turns out, rescue_action_in_public can catch the MissingTemplate
error, but I was not detecting the error properly in my previous
attempts. I
was failing to use global scope when specifying Missing Template. Here’s
what works:

if exception.kind_of? ::ActionController::MissingTemplate
render :status => 404, :text => (IO.read(File.join(RAILS_ROOT,
‘public’, ’
404.html’)))
end

That code is effectively converting 500 errors from MissingTemplate into
404
errors just like other rails features. Excellent.

Notice the “::” before ActionController. Failing to include that results
in
the exception handler throwing an error of its own… which I didn’t
notice
before.