From: Michael Mueller Date: 2004-08-09T18:01:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Problem with exception not beeing caught Hi Mark, > When you don't specify an exception class to rescue from, it defaults > to StandardError. Timeout::Error doesn't inherit from StandardError, so > it goes uncaught: Ups! Didn't think about that possibility! I changed the code the rescue Timeout::Error and now it works :-) Thanks! Michael