I have found various methods showing how this can be done.
What is still unclear is whether there is a different behavior between development and production. So far I am only working in dev.
Here is the scenario in development:
I enter a bad URL, for example /bad_controller/no_action, I get a Routing Error - Recognition failed for "/bad_controller/no_action"
What I would like to see is public/404.html displayed instead. If this is already the case in production then I guess I am done.
Thanks for the clarification,
Long