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. So I tried globbing, but came to no avail, it still shows the 404 page. Here's an extract from my routes file:

# ...
map.root :controller => 'home', :action => 'home'
map.connect '*', :controller => 'home', :action => 'home'

Any suggestions? Thanks, guys!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4132039/rails-redirect-all-unknown-routes-to-root-url

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('/')