Return a specific http status code in Rails

ruby-on-rails http http-status-codes http-status-code-503
Sathish Manohar picture Sathish Manohar · Jan 17, 2012 · Viewed 70.1k times · Source

How do you return 503 Service Unavailable in Rails for the entire application?

Also, how do you do the same for specific controllers?

Answer

Sergio Tulentsev picture Sergio Tulentsev · Jan 17, 2012

You can use head

head 503
# or
head :service_unavailable

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