From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2010-09-28T04:20:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby exception statement not suppressed within begin-rescue-end block

On Sep 11, 2:52 am, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> A bare 'rescue' is short for 'rescue StandardError', and catches only
> sunglasses of that. If you want to rescue everything then 'rescue
> Exception', but beware that also catches programmer errors, system
> problems like out of memory etc.
>
> Google "ruby exception hierarchy" for more.
>
> To use DATA, put __END__ at the end of your code followed by the data
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your excellent response,  not withstanding the sunglasses I
must have been wearing when I screwed up  :-)   My delay in
responding, for which I apologize, occurred because I distracted by
another project.

Best wishes,
Richard