From: Russell Fulton <r.fulton@...>
Date: 2005-12-06T10:30:08+09:00
Subject: how best to handle errors in object instaintiation (sp ?)

Hi,
   I'm new to Ruby and still trying to figure out how best to do things 
"the Ruby way".  The particular problem I am looking at now is the 
initialize method of a class I am writing. Several things can go wrong 
in calls to new for this class ranging from the caller specifying 
incompatible parameters to database calls failing.

What is the perferred method of handling such errors? Simply raising 
exceptions and returning nil?

Cheers, Russell

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