From: Davide Benini <nutsmuggler@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T16:41:08+09:00
Subject: Re: How to check if a webpage exists


>> require 'open-uri'; begin; open('http://www.www.www') {} rescue '404
>> error'; end

Thanks folks,
your suggestion works, but I am not able to integrate it with my 
existing code; I have some problems understanding how rescue interacts 
with code blocks.
Basically, I have a chunk of code that must be executed ONLY IF there is 
no exception; if there is an exception, I need to execute another chunk 
of code.
I tried a couple of syntaxes:

require 'open-uri';
begin
  open('http://www.www.www') {
 // code to execute if everythinkg's ok
} rescue '404 error'
// code to execute in case of error
end

I also tried

require 'open-uri';
begin
  open('http://www.www.www') {}
rescue '404 error'
  // code to execute in case of error
else
 // code to execute if everythinkg's ok
end

Also

require 'open-uri';
begin
  open('http://www.www.www')
  puts "ok"
rescue '404 error'
  puts "error"
end

None of this works.
Which is the proper syntax?
Davide

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