From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-10-30T10:34:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Question concerning ruby file access

From: Stefan Salewski [mailto:mail@ssalewski.de] 
# Or in other words: I want to print a text like "File 
# with filename "testfile" does not exist" when opening failed. 

i usually think it like db's logical unit of work or transaction. i just wrap it w ruby's begin/end and a rescue check as mentioned by sebastian.

something like eg

> begin
* File.open("test.rbx") do |f|
* end
> rescue =>e
>   p e.message
> end
"No such file or directory - test.rbx"
=> nil

note, you can have more rescues and finetune them. you can also make your own exceptions.. just continue reading on the pickaxe..