404 page not found error

Rails
1

Hi Everyone,

I want to redirect the user to login page, when he is trying to use
access unavailable page. Usually it throws me a exception error and 404
page.

But here when user got 404 error he will be redirected to login page, I
modified the method perform_action under the file
/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
as follows:

  def perform_action
    if self.class.action_methods.include?(action_name)
      send(action_name)
      default_render unless performed?
    elsif respond_to? :method_missing
      method_missing action_name
      default_render unless performed?
    elsif template_exists? && template_public?
      default_render
    else
 #the coding was changed for to avoid 404 errors on 06/04/08
 #flash[:notice]="Seems that the page you were looking for does not

exist, so you’ve been redirected here."
redirect_to :controller=>‘account’, :action=>‘login’
#raise UnknownAction, “No action responded to #{action_name}”,
caller
end
end

Its working well shall I override this function in my application
controller or in some where my app files cos its now in vendor folder,

regards,
veeraa

2

Why do that? That’s silly!

You should simply catch an exception and redirect to another page
rather than do that… but better to use a before_filter.

Julian.

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3

On 8 Apr 2008, at 06:31, Veera S. wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I want to redirect the user to login page, when he is trying to use
access unavailable page. Usually it throws me a exception error and
404
page.

Yuck.
rails 2 has stuff to make this much nicer, just stick

rescue_from(::ActionController::UnknownAction) {redirect_to …}
in your application controller

Fred

4

Yuck.
rails 2 has stuff to make this much nicer, just stick

rescue_from(::ActionController::UnknownAction) {redirect_to …}
in your application controller

Fred

Haha, you are the man Fred,
Where would the rails world be without you! :slight_smile: