Consider this begin-rescue-ensure block: attempts=0 begin make_service_call() rescue Exception retry unless attempts>2 exit -1 ensure attemps += 1 end If you run that code as it is, it ra...

In ruby, begin # ... rescue # ... end won't catch exceptions that aren't subclasses of StandardError. In C, rb_rescue(x, Qnil, y, Qnil); VALUE x(void) { /* ... */ return Qnil; } VALUE y(void...

I'm using some ruby code wrapped in a begin - rescue block but somehow it manages to still crash. the block of code looks like this: # Retrieve messages from server def get_messages @connection...

I have a number of controllers in my Ruby on Rails apps with a rescue handler at the end of the action that basically catches any unhandled errors and returns some kind of "user friendly" error. Ho...

When writing the "create" method for an object in a Ruby on Rails app, I have used two methods. I would like to use one method for the sake of cleaner and more consistent code. I will list the two ...

I'm trying to figure out how to rescue syntax errors that come up when eval()ing code in Ruby 1.8.6. I would expect the following Ruby code: #!/usr/bin/ruby good_str = "(1+1)" bad_str = "(1+1" #...