From: Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@...>
Date: 2006-08-06T05:16:29+09:00
Subject: Re: why can't I catch this exception?

On 8/5/06, John Wilger <johnwilger@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/5/06, Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I realize assert_raises _should_ rescue it, but then it should either
> > pass or fail based on the class of the exception.  My main issue is
> > that the program just exits, with out success or failure for that test
> > class.  So its basically as if it was calling exit (which its not).
>
> Ah, OK. I misunderstood and simply thought that you had a test that
> was passing when you expected it to fail.
>
> I tried out your example on my OSX system (ruby 1.8.4, compiled form
> src). I had the same result both with the latest release of Rails and
> after freezing to edge Rails. Not much help, I know -- but it's not
> just you, FWIW.

Thanks for confirming that I'm not going crazy =).  I understand that
it should error out for a bad file (which I'm going to submit a patch
for), but I don't understand what kind of error would cause it to just
crash like that w/o a "rescuable" exception.
- rob
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