From: james.d.masters@...
Date: 2007-04-24T12:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: exception and $!

On Apr 23, 8:29 pm, Paul Rogers <pmr16...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks, I actually wanted to see what the last exception was out side
> > > of a block, kind of like this
> > > begin
> > >   raise "bad"
> > > rescue => e
> > >   puts "#{e} was raised"
> > > end
> > > puts "Just to make sure, last exception was #{$!}"

If you don't have your heart set on using $!, then just put the
contents into a variable (code not tested):

last_error = nil
begin
  raise "bad"
rescue => e
  last_error = e
end

puts "An error was encountered: #{e}" if e