Take care when using rescue_from to rescue multiple errors.

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The following will not work, because later rescue_from statements take precedence and so the first one will never be called:

rescue_from AccessDenied, :with => :redirect_to_home
rescue_from Exception, :with => :render_500

Simply reverse them.