HTML5 mode with Rails and UI-Router for handling hard GET's

app.js

.state('root.index', {
  url: '/?redirectTo',
  views: {
      'content@':{
          controller: 'MainCtrl',
          templateUrl: 'templates/main.html'
      }
  },
  authenticate: false,
  onEnter: function(Redirect, $stateParams){
      var redirect = new Redirect;
      redirect.catch($stateParams);
  }
})

redirect.js

(function(){

    var app = angular.module('MyExport.redirects', ['ui.router']);

    app.factory('Redirect', function($state) {

        var Redirect = function() {
            this.catch = function(params){
                var path = _.reduce(params, function (paths, item) {
                    if (item != null){paths.push(item)};return paths;
                }, [])[0];
                if ( path != null ) {
                    var matchingState = _.where($state.get(), {url: '/'+path })[0];
                    if (matchingState != null) {
                        $state.go(matchingState)
                    }
                }
            }
        };
        return Redirect;
    });
})();

routes.rb

match "/*path" => redirect("/?redirectTo=%{path}")