From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2012-08-09T04:23:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Exception handling doesn't work

On 08/08/2012 12:14 PM, Panagiotis Atmatzidis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to handle an two different exception cases. Using the 'twitter' gem I have the two following exceptions.
>
> Here is the code: https://gist.github.com/3297666
>
> Using irb (ruby 1.9.3x) I get :
>
> "Twitter::Error::ClientError" - when no internet connection is available and
> "Twitter::Error::NotFound" - when username is not found, the supplied twitter username does not exist.
>
> However, no matter what the program goes with the 1st exception. Even when the error is "Twitter::Error::NotFound".
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>

You are not doing anything wrong. This is happening because 
Twitter::Error::NotFound inherits from Twitter::Error::ClientError and 
`rescue` will rescue any subclasses of the provided class.

Try reversing the order of your rescue clauses.

-Justin