Rails: redirect all unknown routes to root_url
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!
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('/')
Like the answer by Arkan. One point, if do not want this behaviour in development environment, then could do -
match '*path' => redirect('/') unless Rails.env.development?
Rails 4-
(routes.rb)
You can still use a simple get
to redirect all unknown routes.
get '*path', to: 'home#index'
If you wish to provide routing to both POST and GET requests you can still use match, but Rails wants you to specify the request method via via
.
match "*path" => "home#index", via: [:get, :post]
Remember that routes.rb
is executed sequentially (matching the first route that fits the supplied path structure), so put wildcard catching at the bottom of your matchings.