Better error pages

[jure]

Ideally nobody sees them ever, but if they do, they're the ugly default currently. I'm sure I can whip up some nice illustrations (GitHub style) for the 50x and 40xs.

[jonasagx]

Hi, I can help with that, I just need to know better the project structure in order to understand where to put things. Is out there any doc covering it?

[jure]

Hi Jonas! Thanks for offering to help. There's a short tutorial about how to implement dynamic error pages in Rails here: http://wearestac.com/blog/dynamic-error-pages-in-rails

Right now the error pages are being served from the public folder, which is the Rails default way. I.e. a 404 error will serve public/404.html (https://github.com/ScienceGist/sciencegist/blob/master/public/404.html). These pages are quite ugly by default and it would be awesome if we could make them prettier :)

An example of a good error page in my mind is: https://github.com/404, which gives you an option to search the content right there from the error page. Google's http://www.google.com/notaurl is a bit more minimalistic, which is fine as well.

Let me know if I can help you with anything!