From: zdennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T11:56:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about begin, rescue, end.

Harold Hausman wrote:

> 
> .... Right, so, isin't begin, rescue, end supposed to stop exactly this
> from happening? Or chances are, I've misunderstood.
> 

'rescue' by itself catches StandardError exceptions and subclasses of StandardError. The 
Timeout::Error is probably not a StandardError, but probably a subclass of Exception. You can will 
want to specfically catch Timeout::Error or Exception ....

begin
  ...
rescue Timeout::Error => ex # or rescue Exception => ex
  ...
end

HTH,

Zach