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Rescue from record not found error instead of showing an exception or white page:

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class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
# ... your other stuff here
rescue_from ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound do |exception|
redirect_to root_path, 404, alert: 'Record not found'
end
end