From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-07-27T14:00:20+09:00
Subject: Re: How to rescue any exception in 1.8?

Hi,

At Sun, 27 Jul 2003 05:50:32 +0900,
Philip Mak wrote:
> But in Ruby 1.8, it will not catch the exception. I found out that if
> I do "rescue Exception" instead of just "rescue", it will work.

Use "rescue TimeoutError", if you want to honor backward
compatibility.

> So, my question is, if I want to rescue any exception no matter what
> it is, do I have to start typing "rescue Exception" instead of
> "rescue"?

Yes.

-- 
Nobu Nakada