From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-11-05T14:47:04+09:00
Subject: Re: rescuing exceptions

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 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.

Joel you are a lifesaver. Thank you for responding....I stepped out of 
my IDE shell and test just via command line. And you are correct, it 
doesn't print to stdout or stderr. So then I looked at the difference 
between how my IDE was running Ruby and me personally on the CLI. The 
debug "-d" option made the difference when calling Ruby. Bah, I guess 
that is what happens when you get real comfortable in an IDE.

Thanks so much Joel for responding, otherwise I'd probably still be at 
this minor roadblock tomorrow!

Zach