From: Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T10:31:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting initialization status from "foo = Class.new"

On 11/13/06, Rodney Brown <rodney.brown@knology.net> wrote:
> Is there a way for "Class.new" to signal failure?  I originally had the
> class's initialize method return true or false but this doesn't seem to
> be reflected in a "foo = Class.new" when trying it in irb.
>
> Using the class variable "found" works but shouldn't Class.new signal
> failure?
>

How about raising an exception?
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/tut_exceptions.html

-Harold