Render 404 via catch-all route in Rails 3.1

public_controller.rb

class CmsPageNotFound < StandardError; end
class PublicController < ApplicationController
  
  rescue_from CmsPageNotFound do
    render 'not_found', :status => :not_found and return false
  end

  def index
  end
  
  def show
    @content_item = parse_path(params[:path])
    raise CmsPageNotFound unless @content_item
  end

  private
  def parse_path(path_parts)
    # item = nil
    # path = path_parts.split("/")
    # if path.size == 1 
    #   %w().include?path[0] ? item = true : item = false
    # elsif path.size >= 2
    # end
    # item
    nil
  end

end

routes.rb

  match "*path" => 'public#show'

are you sure it works with rails 3.1? looks like such route doesn't work in latest version

I've got a couple 3.1 projects implementing the above, and they are working fine so far. I believe the 'catch-all' was removed from the generated app template, but you can still certainly use it. Make sure it's the last route in your routes file though.

Just added this to a new 3.1.3 app and it works great =)

Nice :)

Thanks!

@smostovoy: If this was SO, I'd definitely give you an upvote. Thanks for the nice simple solution!

And FYI, I'm running Rails 3.2.13 with Ruby 1.9.3-p392.