If you switch to rails-1.2 RC-2,
"Uncaught exceptions raised anywhere in your application will cause RAILS_ROOT/public/500.html to be read and shown instead of just the static “Application error (Rails).” So make it look nice if you aren’t using it already!"
No more fooling around with rescue_action_in_public is required now.
mmm,
but this is a 500.HTML, not RHTML. so i will not be able to use dynamic data, or even layout. that's not very DRY.
Anyone know why this was done and/or what the benefit is of it?
Elad Meidar - Creopolis.com wrote:
If you get a 500, you can't be sure your server is really working right. A 500 is a server error so your Rails app might be hosed. It's probably safer to render an html page than try to rely on the app to do something smart.
Jason Norris wrote: