From: Laurent Julliard <laurent@...>
Date: 2004-11-27T16:47:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Catching exceptions at top level

Kaspar Schiess wrote:
> Laurent Julliard <laurent@moldus.org> wrote in news:41A654AB.1070002
> @moldus.org:
> 
> 
>>The problem is that I must leave the original file containing the code 
>>unchanged so it has to be a mechanism that i can include with a piece 
>>of code added at runtime with a -r option
> 
> 
> The solution was there, but I will make that explicit: 
> 
> catcher.rb   ---------------------------------------
> END {
>   puts 'exception has happened.'
>   p $!
> }
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> test.rb ---------------------------------------------
> raise 'dodah'
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Call as 
>   ruby -rcatcher test.rb
> 
> gives you 
>  exception has happened.
>  #<RuntimeError: dodah>
>  test.rb:1: dodah (RuntimeError)
> 
> 
> yours, kaspar
> 
> hand manufactured code - www.tua.ch/ruby
> 
> 
> 

This is exactly what I was lloking for and as I suspected when I first 
asked the question the answer wass almost obvious :-) Thanks again

Laurent

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Laurent JULLIARD
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