From: Dhruva Sagar Date: 2010-07-13T21:33:44+09:00 Subject: Re: rescue --000e0cd372da074792048b441469 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 If you are familiar to other programming languages such as Java, rescue is similar to 'catch'. Basically literally speaking, it rescues you in case there is an exception and catches the exception and gives you the chance to do something about it a bit more gracefully compared to the vm. I hope that made it a bit clear to you. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 18:00, Abder-Rahman Ali wrote: > In this code: http://pastie.org/private/llneqf8bi5kf3i82q2ivw from > http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_exceptions.html, I really > didn't get the idea of "rescue" and what it is supposed to do? > > Can you just explain it further? > > Thanks. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- Thanks & Regards, Dhruva Sagar. --000e0cd372da074792048b441469--