From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T05:01:52+09:00
Subject: Re: exception handling in ruby

On 8/18/06, Junkone <junkone1@gmail.com> wrote:
> HI
> My exception handling routine is not able to thro the stack trace etc
> of the exception .
> for eg.
>  rescue Exception
>         puts $_
> I get a nil in $_
>
> However when i dont handle the exception, i get the nice exception
> message
> Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException: Unable to locate object,
> using id and
>
> How do i capture the exception details?
> Regards
>
> Seede

either use $! and $@, or write it more explicitly:

...
rescue Exception ex
  puts ex.mesage
  puts ex.backtrace.join("\n")
end