Rails: redirect all unknown routes to root_url

Question

Whenever a user hits the wrong page, rails shows 404.html from the public folder. However, I\'d like just to redirect the browser to the root page, without showing anything.

Answer 1

If your project is powered by rails 3, add simply this line to your routes.rb

match '*path' => redirect('/')

Edit: If you're on Rails 4 or 5

match '*path' => redirect('/'), via: :get

or

get '*path' => redirect('/')