bugfix: handle couch 404s

our special error handler for json requests would turn all exceptions
into 500s - removed it. now the rescue_responses can do their thing
again.

3 files changed, 2 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
index 8d08a2c..1f37fea 100644
--- a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   # rendered and that template is not present
   before_filter :verify_request_format!, if: :mime_types_specified
 
-  rescue_from StandardError, :with => :default_error_handler
-  rescue_from CouchRest::Exception, :with => :default_error_handler
-
   ActiveSupport.run_load_hooks(:application_controller, self)
 
   protected
@@ -22,13 +19,6 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
     mimes.present?
   end
 
-  def default_error_handler(exc)
-    respond_to do |format|
-      format.json { render_json_error(exc) }
-      format.all  { raise exc }  # reraise the exception so the normal thing happens.
-    end
-  end
-
   #
   # I think this should be 'errors', not 'error', since that is what
   # `respond_with @object` will return. For now, I am leaving this as 'error',
diff --git a/app/controllers/errors_controller.rb b/app/controllers/errors_controller.rb
index 80c270f..2d918b5 100644
--- a/app/controllers/errors_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/errors_controller.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-# We render http errors ourselves so we can customize them
 class ErrorsController < ApplicationController
-  respond_to :html
 
   # 404
   def not_found
diff --git a/app/views/errors/server_error.json b/app/views/errors/server_error.json
index d9a1a86..a2763f6 100644
--- a/app/views/errors/server_error.json
+++ b/app/views/errors/server_error.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
-  "error": "server_error",
+  "error": "server failed",
   "message": "Server Error"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}