There are many ways to tackle this problem, but this is what I'm using.
# 404s
scope :constraints => lambda{|req| !req.path.match(/(gif|jpg|png)/) } do
match '*path', :to => 'pages#error'
end
This goes in config/routes.rb and is the last route. So, basically, any request
that is not an image and has not been matched by a valid route, gets treated as
a 404 error.
I haven't run into the same particular spam link issue as you, but you could
use a scoped constraint to ignore all paths that contain and/or end with .php.
-- Patrick
On Feb 10, 2014, at 8:04 pm, Chris McCann <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of my Rails apps sent me this exception notification:
>
> A ActionView::MissingTemplate occurred in site#about:
>
> Missing template site/about.erb in view path app/views
>
> -------------------------------
> Request:
> -------------------------------
>
> * URL : http://myapp.example/site/about/register.php
> * Parameters: {"format"=>"php", "action"=>"about", "id"=>"register",
> "controller"=>"site"}
>
> My google-fu is weak on this one -- what's a good way to prevent this type of
> bogus request from throwing an exception application-wide?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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