From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-11-05T14:38:39+09:00
Subject: Re: rescuing exceptions

Zach Dennis wrote:
> I haven't seen a reply to this thread, so I'll give it one more go.....
> 
> When I rescue an Exception shouldn't it be my responsiblity as the 
> developer to handle it and print it to STDOUT or STDERR? Why does Ruby 
> 1.8.2 still output something to STDERR!!? Is this just how it works?
> 
> Zach
> 
> ----CODE-----
> class MyException < Exception; end
> 
> def method
>    raise MyException
> end
> 
> begin
>    method
> rescue MyException
>    #shouldn't this rescue the error?
>    # --Why does it still get outputted to my screen?
> end

Are you sure that code, exactly, prints something to stderr or stdout? I 
can't reproduce it here with 1.8.2 or 1.9 snapshots.