From: Stefan Kaes <skaes@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T23:47:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about begin, rescue, end.

Robert Klemme wrote:

>A general remark: You can greatly improve reliability of your code by
>replacing
>
>the_file = File.new("SitePingLog.txt", "a")
>the_file.puts('Got it in '+ the_wait_time.to_s + ' seconds @ ' +
>Time.now.to_s)
>the_file.close
>
>with
>
>File.open("SitePingLog.txt", "a") do |the_file|
>  the_file.puts('Got it in '+ the_wait_time.to_s + ' seconds @ ' +
>    Time.now.to_s)
>end
>  
>
I'd prefer

File.open("SitePingLog.txt", "a") do |file|
  file.puts("Got it in #{the_wait_time} seconds @ #{Time.now}")
end

;-)