ActionController::RoutingError exception logs stacktrace

[morgoth]

It would be great to log this exception as 404 without bloating logs with exception stacktrace.
I can see that this is not an easy task in #27 and I also cannot find a good way to workaround this.
Do you have any clue how we can work on this issue?

[wgc-as]

We added a new rule to the end of routes.rb:

  get '*unmatched_route', to: 'application#route_not_found'

And added the new controller action:

  def route_not_found
    render 'error_pages/404', status: :not_found
  end

With these Lograge will log this error as 404, and there should be no stack trace.

[pxlpnk]

@wgc-as I like the idea, could you craft a PR for the readme to add this?

[benlovell]

Agreed. This seems like a nice solution to a common problem. Thanks @wgc-as

[pxlpnk]

I had some minutes to fill so I prepared a PR, let me know what you think @benlovell @wgc-as @morgoth

[pxlpnk]

We added this to readme in the FAQ section.

[swrobel]

Any thoughts on this cautionary note about catch-all routes & Rails engines that I found? https://github.com/vidibus/vidibus-routing_error#alternative-two

[ankane]

Another approach (for Rails 4.2 at least) is to create an initializer with:

if Rails.application.config.lograge.enabled
  class ActionDispatch::DebugExceptions
    alias_method :old_log_error, :log_error

    def log_error(env, wrapper)
      exception = wrapper.exception
      if exception.is_a?(ActionController::RoutingError)
        data = {
          method: env["REQUEST_METHOD"],
          path: env["REQUEST_PATH"],
          status: wrapper.status_code,
          error: "#{exception.class.name}: #{exception.message}"
        }
        formatted_message = Lograge.formatter.call(data)
        logger(env).send(Lograge.log_level, formatted_message)
      else
        old_log_error env, wrapper
      end
    end
  end
end

Props to this StackOverflow question

@benlovell Are you open to a PR to add something like this to the gem?

[mtarnovan]

Use match instead of get to catch routing errors on non-GET routes. Additionally we can redirect from the route itself, without implementing a controller action:

match "*any", via: :all, to: redirect('/404')

[fgblomqvist]

Updated version (for Rails 5.2) of the patch by @ankane:

config/initializers/routing_error_defatalizer.rb:

# frozen_string_literal: true

if Rails.application.config.lograge.enabled
  module ActionDispatch
    class DebugExceptions
      alias old_log_error log_error

      def log_error(request, wrapper)
        exception = wrapper.exception
        if exception.is_a?(ActionController::RoutingError)
          data = {
            method: request.env['REQUEST_METHOD'],
            path: request.env['REQUEST_PATH'],
            status: wrapper.status_code,
            error: "#{exception.class.name}: #{exception.message}"
          }
          formatted_message = Lograge.formatter.(data)
          logger(request).send(Lograge.log_level, formatted_message)
        else
          old_log_error request, wrapper
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

[mashedkeyboard]

@fgblomqvist's version of @ankane's patch works fantastically for non-resourceful routes - however, resourceful routes still seem to error with it. One solution could be adding ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound to the exception.is_a? statement, but that feels like it could have unintended consequences.

[fgblomqvist]

@mashedkeyboard I use it for all kinds of routes, resourceful and non-resourceful ones. I solved it by doing a pretty standard solution:

rescue_from ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, with: :record_not_found if Rails.env.production?

def record_not_found
  not_found
end

def not_found(message = nil)
  flash[:page_error] = message.to_s if message.present?
  raise ActionController::RoutingError.new(message)
end

This is inside my ApplicationController.

[styrmis]

In case it helps anyone, I was finding that the match approach we were using to suppress the stacktraces from routing errors was causing requests bound for ActiveStorage to fail, as those routes appear to be added after the app routes are processed.

We are now using something of the form:

  # Return 404 for any unmatched paths except those bound for Rails-provided actions
  match '*path', to: 'application#not_found', via: :all, constraints: lambda { |req|
    req.path !~ %r{^/rails}
  }

to not match any request which appears to be destined for a Rails-provided action.