From: Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...>
Date: 2012-01-13T21:22:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with "Exception" - suddenly stopped working

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Panagiotis Atmatzidis
> <ml@convalesco.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > thanks all for the answers.
> >
> > On 12 =CE=99=CE=B1=CE=BD 2012, at 22:35 , Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Peter Vandenabeele <
> peter@vandenabeele.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Very speculative ... could you ask it's ancestor tree?
> >>>
> >>> Twitter::Error::BadGateway.class
> >>>
> >>
> >> Correction
> >>
> >>  Twitter::Error::BadGateway.ancestors
> >>
> >> that is ...
> >>
> >> Peter
> >
> >
> > Here is the ancestors output:
> >
> > greyjewel:Morula atma$ cat test.rb && ruby1.9 test.rb
> > require "twitter"
> > puts Twitter::Error::BadGateway.ancestors
> > [...]
> > Twitter::Error::BadGateway
> > Twitter::Error::ServerError
> > Twitter::Error
> > StandardError
> > Exception
> > Object
> > Kernel
> > BasicObject
> > greyjewel:Morula atma$
> >
> > So my error is "BadGateway" but should I use this like:
> >
> > [...]
> > rescue Exception =3D> (Twitter::Error::BadGateway)
>

I think that should be (untested)

  rescue Twitter::Error =3D> e

and then you can do usefull things with 'e', preferably based on it's class=
.

e.to_s
e.class

> [...]
> >
> > I'm not sure where to go from here.
>
> (Bottom commenting. Thanks Peter).
>
> If you put Twitter::Error::BadGateway it'll treat only this particular
> error.
>
> And there's much more.
>
> Look at the ones raised by the twitter gem itself.
>
> https://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter/tree/master/lib/twitter/error
>
>
Indeed. Thanks for that pointer.

So it seems

  rescue Twitter::Error should catch all exceptions from the Twitter gem.

Curious if the OP was able to solve the problem now with mentioning an
explicit Exception class?

HTH,

Peter

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