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:

config.action_controller.consider_all_requests_local = false 

But this does not seem to have any effect.

Answer 1

The only way I've found to do this so far is to set in development.rb

config.consider_all_requests_local = false

Now, restart the server.

Then access the URLs using my local IP address: http://192.168.1.135:3000/blah

The other settings mentioned don't seem to have any effect.

Answer 2

None of the proposed solutions worked in my Rails 3 app. The quick and dirty solution for me was to simply hit the error pages directly to see the rendered HTML. For example,

http://0.0.0.0:3000/404.html  http://0.0.0.0:3000/500.html