From: Gregory Brown Date: 2005-11-18T11:53:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Question about begin, rescue, end. On 11/17/05, Harold Hausman wrote: > ... Right, so, isin't begin, rescue, end supposed to stop exactly this > from happening? Or chances are, I've misunderstood. > > Thanks in advance for your time, I think it's the 'retry' that's causing the error. This is being called inside of the rescue, which in turn has no rescue. maybe call exit; at the end of your successful case, and then move retry outside of the rescue, effectively creating a loop.