Rails: Catch all exceptions in a rails controller

rescue with no arguments will rescue any error.

So, you'll want:

def delete
  schedule_id = params[:scheduleId]
  begin
    Schedules.delete(schedule_id)
  rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
    render :json => "record not found"
  rescue
    #Only comes in here if nothing else catches the error
  end
  render :json => "ok"
end

begin
  # do something dodgy
rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
  # handle not found error
rescue ActiveRecord::ActiveRecordError
  # handle other ActiveRecord errors
rescue # StandardError
  # handle most other errors
rescue Exception
  # handle everything else
  raise
end

You can also define a rescue_from method.

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  rescue_from ActionController::RoutingError, :with => :error_render_method

  def error_render_method
    respond_to do |type|
      type.xml { render :template => "errors/error_404", :status => 404 }
      type.all  { render :nothing => true, :status => 404 }
    end
    true
  end
end

Depending on what your goal is, you may also want to consider NOT handling exceptions on a per-controller basis. Instead, use something like the exception_handler gem to manage responses to exceptions consistently. As a bonus, this approach will also handle exceptions that occur at the middleware layer, like request parsing or database connection errors that your application does not see. The exception_notifier gem might also be of interest.

You can catch exceptions by type:

rescue_from ::ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, with: :record_not_found
rescue_from ::NameError, with: :error_occurred
rescue_from ::ActionController::RoutingError, with: :error_occurred
# Don't resuce from Exception as it will resuce from everything as mentioned here "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10048173/why-is-it-bad-style-to-rescue-exception-e-in-ruby" Thanks for @Thibaut Barrère for mention that
# rescue_from ::Exception, with: :error_occurred 

protected

def record_not_found(exception)
  render json: {error: exception.message}.to_json, status: 404
  return
end

def error_occurred(exception)
  render json: {error: exception.message}.to_json, status: 500
  return
end