Rails: redirect all unknown routes to root_url

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Albus Dumbledore picture Albus Dumbledore · Nov 9, 2010 · Viewed 32.3k times · Source

Whenever a user hits the wrong page, rails shows 404.html from the public folder. However, I'd like just to redirect the browser to the root page, without showing anything. So I tried globbing, but came to no avail, it still shows the 404 page. Here's an extract from my routes file:

# ...
map.root :controller => 'home', :action => 'home'
map.connect '*', :controller => 'home', :action => 'home'

Any suggestions? Thanks, guys!

Answer

Arkan picture Arkan · Nov 9, 2010

If your project is powered by rails 3, add simply this line to your routes.rb

match '*path' => redirect('/')

Edit: If you're on Rails 4 or 5

match '*path' => redirect('/'), via: :get

or

get '*path' => redirect('/')

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