From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2010-07-08T21:45:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Changing registry values with Win32::Registry

On 8 July 2010 12:37, Navaneet Kumar <tonavaneet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heesob Park wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2010/7/8 Navaneet Kumar <tonavaneet@gmail.com>:
>>>> non-existing keys, you can try this:
>>> having null. I mean the 'name' key is not exist in that path. How do we
>>> handle this in ruby.
>>>
>> You can handle it like this:
>>
>>   begin
>>   if (reg.read_i(name)!="")
>>              return reg.read_i(name)
>>         end
>>   rescue Win32::Registry::Error => e
>>   if e.code == 2
>>     puts "#{name} key not exist!"
>>   end
>>   end
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Park Heesob
>
> Thanks Park...
>
>

I would do something like

   reg.read_i(name) rescue nil

unless I wanted to know exactly what went wrong.

I wrote some hacks for replacing key values in registry so I can dig
them up if you want.

HTH

Michal