From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-02-09T18:06:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Help begin/rescue/ensure

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:20:30PM +0900, S Kanakakorn wrote:
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'net/ssh'
> 
> begin
>  session = Net::SSH.start('aaaa-lnx', :password=>'xyz',
>              :username=>'root',:timeout=>5)
> rescue
>  puts 'cannot connect '
> ensure
>  puts 'reach ensure point'
> end
> puts 'at last'
...
> What did I do wrong ?

A bare "rescue" doesn't catch all exceptions, only those which are
subclasses of StandardError. Change to:

  rescue Exception

HTH,

Brian.