404 page not found error

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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

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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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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

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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: