Tiny little Rack middleware to answer a configured set of path's with a HTTP 404.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'permanent_not_found'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install permanent_not_found

# config.ru
require 'rack/lobster'
require 'permanent_not_found'

use PermanentNotFound, content: '404 Not Found', paths: ['/wp-content', '/phpmyadmin']
run Rack::Lobster.new

# config/application.rb
require 'permanent_not_found'
content = Rails.root.join('public', '404.html').read.freeze
config.middleware.insert_before(
  Rack::Rewrite, PermanentNotFound, content: content,
  paths: ['/wp-content', '/phpmyadmin'],
  pattern: [/^legacyroute\/.*/, /\.swf$/]
)

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/COMPEON/permanent_not_found.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.