Redirect All Routing Errors to Root URL of the Application

Question

For example typing: localhost:3000/absurd-non-existing-route How do I get invalid routes to point to the main page of the application in Rails?

Answer 1

The solution presented here works pretty well

#Last route in routes.rb
match '*a', :to => 'errors#routing'

# errors_controller.rb
class ErrorsController < ApplicationController
  def routing
    render_404
  end
end

Answer 2

On Rails 4+

Edit your routes.rb file by adding a get "*path", to: redirect('/') line just above the last end as mentioned by user @ Rails: redirect all unknown routes to root_url