From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2002-07-14T09:00:39+09:00
Subject: Stackless exception (RUnit?)

I find that often I want to raise an exception, with an error message 
that tells the Programmer what he's done wrong.  However, I don't want a 
long stack trace when this happens.  What I've been writing is:

raise "Foo not support here"

And, I definately get a big stack trace when I run my unit-tests, but 
also when used in an application..  I'd like to see something that told 
me the error message, and what line it happened at, but no much more. 
 (Much like I remember Perl's "die").

What's the best way to do this in Ruby?

Thanks.
David Corbin