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Rails metal: Throw an exception to continue the dispatch chain

#1972

As described here: http://guides.rails.info/rails_o... Metal applications cannot return the HTTP Status 404 to a client, as it is used for continuing the Metal chain execution. Please use normal Rails controllers or a custom middleware if returning 404 is a requirement.

I don't think it has to be so difficult for a Metal app to return a 404... Why not just define some constant exception and continue the dispatch chain when its thrown? Makes more sense, to me at least. At the moment, you probably need to manually render the public/404.html file if you want to get 404'ish behaviour (without losing speed to the normal routing stuff). If more guys think like me, I'll try to make a patch up for this.

Reported by Jonas Schneider · February 14th, 2009 @ 05:02 PM

State: stale
Milestone: 3.x
Assigned to: nobody
Importance: none

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  1. Magnus Bergmark
    Magnus Bergmark

    I am in favor of this. Not just because it makes sense, but also because of such a solution would reveal much more intent than returning something with the "magic value" 404.

    April 9th, 2010 @ 01:53 PM

  2. Cheah Chu Yeow
    Cheah Chu Yeow

    I agree that returning a magic 404 feels wrong, but I'm not sure if we should affect the change in Rails 2.x in the interests of not breaking existing applications.

    In Rails edge, a "X-Cascade" header with a value of "pass" is required to continue the Metal chain.

    i.e.

    [404, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/html', 'X-Cascade' => 'pass' }, ['Not Found']]

    This feels sufficient to me, would you be happy with that? In fact, this undocumented change had me struggling for a few hours when trying to upgrade an app to Rails 3. I'm going to fix the documentation bug.

    April 19th, 2010 @ 10:54 AM

  3. Jeremy Kemper
    Jeremy Kemper
    • Milestone changed from 2.x to 3.x

    May 4th, 2010 @ 06:48 PM

  4. Jonas Schneider
    Jonas Schneider
    • Importance changed from to

    'X-Cascade' => 'pass' solves this.

    August 20th, 2010 @ 03:55 PM

  5. Santiago Pastorino
    Santiago Pastorino
    • State changed from new to open

    This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not been commented on for at least three months.

    The resources of the Rails core team are limited, and so we are asking for your help. If you can still reproduce this error on the 3-0-stable branch or on master, please reply with all of the information you have about it and add "[state:open]" to your comment. This will reopen the ticket for review. Likewise, if you feel that this is a very important feature for Rails to include, please reply with your explanation so we can consider it.

    Thank you for all your contributions, and we hope you will understand this step to focus our efforts where they are most helpful.

    February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:59 PM

  6. Santiago Pastorino
    Santiago Pastorino
    • State changed from open to stale

    February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:59 PM