From: Jeffrey Moss <jeff@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T04:17:38+09:00
Subject: Re: rescue anything raised?

rescue Exception

All exceptions descend from class Exception.

-Jeff

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:12:35AM +0900, William E. Rubin wrote:
> Is there a way to rescue any raised error? Like "rescue *" or
> something?
> 
> The "Programming Ruby" book on ruby-lang.org says that just plain
> "rescue" (without a parameter list) will rescue any "StandardError",
> but it doesn't go on to say that anything raised is necessarily
> descended from StandardError, or to explicitly mention a way to rescue
> everything.
> 
> I was guessing that just plain "rescue" might work, but this doesn't
> seem to be true - my code just got a "Timeout::Error", and it was not
> rescued by a parameterless "rescue".
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>