From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-16T01:01:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15171] Re: How do I catch unsuspecting errors:

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15158] How do I catch unsuspecting errors:"
    on 01/05/15, Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

|begin
|  a = nil # setup an error
|  a.each {|i| puts i}
|rescue
|  puts <information about this error. Maybe $!?>
|end
|
|But of course, rescue does not catch this type of error.
|Is general error catching  possible in Ruby and if so,
|can someone tell me how it is done.

Try "rescue NameError" or "rescue Exception".

							matz.