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thenextmogul
thenextmogul

Reputation: 1183

How to change the Rails error message text "We're sorry, but something went wrong."

Can someone tell me how to change the Ruby on Rails error message "We're sorry, but something went wrong." I simply want to change the text of this error and for some reason, can't figure out where this page/text is located so that I can modify it.

Thanks in advance for your time.

MDR

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2524

Answers (1)

Pavan
Pavan

Reputation: 33542

The code is located in public/500.html. You can change it for your need.

#public/500.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>We're sorry, but something went wrong (500)</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
  <style>
  body {
    background-color: #EFEFEF;
    color: #2E2F30;
    text-align: center;
    font-family: arial, sans-serif;
    margin: 0;
  }

  div.dialog {
    width: 95%;
    max-width: 33em;
    margin: 4em auto 0;
  }

  div.dialog > div {
    border: 1px solid #CCC;
    border-right-color: #999;
    border-left-color: #999;
    border-bottom-color: #BBB;
    border-top: #B00100 solid 4px;
    border-top-left-radius: 9px;
    border-top-right-radius: 9px;
    background-color: white;
    padding: 7px 12% 0;
    box-shadow: 0 3px 8px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.17);
  }

  h1 {
    font-size: 100%;
    color: #730E15;
    line-height: 1.5em;
  }

  div.dialog > p {
    margin: 0 0 1em;
    padding: 1em;
    background-color: #F7F7F7;
    border: 1px solid #CCC;
    border-right-color: #999;
    border-left-color: #999;
    border-bottom-color: #999;
    border-bottom-left-radius: 4px;
    border-bottom-right-radius: 4px;
    border-top-color: #DADADA;
    color: #666;
    box-shadow: 0 3px 8px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.17);
  }
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <!-- This file lives in public/500.html -->
  <div class="dialog">
    <div>
      <h1>We're sorry, but something went wrong.</h1>
    </div>
    <p>If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.</p>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

OR

You can customize the error messages with your own dynamic error pages. Have a look at this tutorial on how to implement it.

Upvotes: 4

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