From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2012-10-25T20:31:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Googlebot- How to generate a 404 error status after a if statement

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Pierre d. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> def index
>
>     begin
>       page = StaticPage.find_by_id!(53)
>       @text = page.text params[:locale]
>
>     rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
>       flash[:notice] = t :page_not_found
>       redirect_to index_url
>     end

> end
>
> I will add "response.status=404" in it.

Uh, well. That won't work if you're doing a redirect; "redirect" means
"send a status 302". You can't do both.

> But what should I write in the
> index.rhml in my if statement, instead of my "meta
> http-equiv="refresh"?:

That said, I don't understand why you're redirecting to the same page;
why not just return a "not found" response and text? Though for this
locale issue, a 406 Not Acceptable might make more sense...

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