How to test 500.html in rails development env?

Question

I want to test the 500 error pages in my Rails app using the development environment.

I already tried this in config/environments/development.rb:

Answer 1

You should add the below lines to the application_controller,

unless  ActionController::Base.consider_all_requests_local
    rescue_from Exception, :with => :render_500
    if  ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
      rescue_from Exception, :with => :render_404
    end
    rescue_from ActionController::RoutingError, :with => :render_404
    rescue_from ActionController::UnknownController, :with => :render_404
    rescue_from ActionController::UnknownAction, :with => :render_404
end

Then try running with the below settings.

config.action_controller.consider_all_requests_local = false in config/environments/development.rb:

It will work. Please dont forget to write the function in application_controller.rb to render the layout for each of the error messages.