From: hemant kumar <gethemant@...>
Date: 2008-08-22T19:07:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Nesting exception

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 18:48 +0900, Sijo Kg wrote:
> Hi
>    I have the following code It is working I have no file named a
> begin
>   f=File.open('a')
>   rescue Exception => exception
>         if exception.message == 'No such file or directory - a'
>          puts ' in first rescue'
>        else
>         puts 'in else case'
>        end
> end
> 
> So here I get 'in first rescue'
> 
> Now what i did is I deliberately changed exception.message1 .So sure I
> will get an excption here And How cn I handle that(This is for learning
> only).I tried like
> 
> begin
>   f=File.open('a')
>   rescue Exception => exception
>         if exception.message1 != 'No such file or directory - a'
>          puts ' in first rescue'
>        else
>         puts 'in else case'
>         rescue NoMethodError => e:
>                 puts e.to_s
>    # raise
>    # puts 'error'
>        end
> end
>       But it gives syntax error
>         rescue NoMethodError => e:
>    How can I solve this..Even now searching a lot in google I am not
> that much confident in exception handling in Ruby and also rails

Ignoring, whatever you are trying to do, your exception handling is
wrong, it should be:

rescue NoMethodError => e