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

Rails 4-

(routes.rb)

You can still use a simple get to redirect all unknown routes.

  get '*path', to: 'home#index'

If you wish to provide routing to both POST and GET requests you can still use match, but Rails wants you to specify the request method via via.

  match "*path" => "home#index", via: [:get, :post]  

Remember that routes.rb is executed sequentially (matching the first route that fits the supplied path structure), so put wildcard catching at the bottom of your matchings.