From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-09-12T05:55:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Why this exception is not caught?

On 9/11/06, Hemant . <inxs.hemant@gmail.com> wrote:

> In this case, when the exception is raised on line # 94, then in the calling
> method...it is handled as general rescue...and its not handled as Exception
> of Class RetryException.However, if i remove the last rescue statement in
> the second method it works alright.

 Because that second rescue statement catches any exception which is a
subclass of StandardError, so it catches the RetryException.

Then the statement

     raise "some other error"

raises a RunTimeError with "some other error" as a message.

So the outer method sees the RunTimeError and not the original RetryException.
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Rick DeNatale

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