From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-09-18T23:07:37+09:00
Subject: Re: why does this prog still stop after exception

Alle Thursday 18 September 2008, Junkone ha scritto:
> i thought i put enough exception handlers for the prog to continue
> after failure. why does it stop
> require 'imDaveAlerts'
> require "timeoutx"
>
> while(true)
> puts Time.now
>   begin
>     TimeoutX.timeout(15){
>        begin
>         a=DaveAlerts.new
>         a.doAlerts()
>         rescue => detail
>         print detail.backtrace.join("\n")
>       end
>      }
>   rescue => detail
>     print detail.backtrace.join("\n")
>   end
> sleep(5)
> end
>
> Wc:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/timeoutx-0.3.0/lib/timeoutx.rb:40:in
> `wait': execution expired (TimeoutX::Error)

If no exception class is specified, rescue only rescues exceptions derived 
from StandardError, which TimeoutX::Error is not. If you want to rescue all 
exceptions, you need to explicitly write

rescue Exception

I hope this helps

Stefano