fallback to a default controller action

What is the proper way to have any invalid request fall back to a specific action and controller?

That is, instead of seeing an error like those below, I would like control to pass to my main controller action.

I think you need to implement rescue_action. This gets called
whenever an exception is thrown, so you need to check whether the
exception corresponds to the missing action one and then do as
appropriate.

Rails 2.0 has a much nicer way of dealing with this, since you can do

class PostsController < ApplicationController      rescue_from FooError, :with => :foo_handler

     protected        def foo_handler        end end

Fred