Return a specific http status code in Rails
You can use head
head 503# orhead :service_unavailable
For the entire application:
# ApplicationControllerbefore_filter :return_unavailable_statusprivate def return_unavailable_status render :nothing => true, :status => :service_unavailable endIf you wanted a custom error page, you could do:
render 'custom_unavailable_page', :status => :service_unavailable If you don't want it for specific controllers:
# SomeControllerskip_before_filter :return_unavailable_status
The following works for me:
format.any { render :json => {:response => 'Unable to authenticate' },:status => 401 }The :response for the HTML response just in case it's accessed from the browser.
The render head 503 does not seem to be working with the above statement.