From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-07-02T20:26:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Exceptions list - Unix ENOENT not the name of the exception - what is?

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:12:51 +0900, Graham Nicholls
<graham@rockcons.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm trying to open a file, and if the user hasn't given an extension, adding
> one, but I can't find out what exception to use.  If I leave off the rescue
> statements, then I see ENOENT, so try using that, but get a NameError -
> ENOENT is the Unix error, not Ruby's.  So, what is the exception for a
> missing file on IO.foreach, and how in general can I get a list of
> exceptions or find out which is the right one to use?

Try rescuing Errno::ENOENT.

-austin
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