Prevent rails 404, 500 pages from rendering inside layout

Question

I have a web app which has a global layout file (application.html.erb). When I encounter a 404 or 500 error the corresponding error page is rendered inside the layout file.

I want to prevent this from happening and render outside the layout but I can't figure out where to put the render :layout => false call. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

You can follow these directions to setup a custom 404 page in rails. The same should apply to other errors (500, 403, etc.)

Answer 2

Turns out I was using the super exeption notifier plugin which has built in supprt for rendering error templates.