Hello, I have a basic idea of what an exception is but I am not able to understand it so that I can make use of it in my application''s. If possible please try and help me out with the basic of exception and its use. It would also be great, if any one of you could give me certain links on exceptions which would help me understand its concepts better. Thank You -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
typical exception look as below: begin raise Exception.new("") rescue Exception => x puts x.message rescue puts "an error has occured end if an exception is raised then all code after is skipped up to the rescue which rescues the program. if an exception is called outside a begin block the exception will be raised up the stack until a rescue block is found. classes may declare a rescue_method that wild catch exceptions raised by any method in the class. Exceptions are meant to be use when errors occur that directly impact the program. For instance if a configuration file is missing that will throw an exception were as if the file is part of a user input and isn''t expected to be there then normal error handling would be appropriate. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
> It would also be great, if any one of you could give me certain links on > exceptions which would help me understand its concepts better.http://ruby.activeventure.com/programmingruby/book/tut_exceptions.html ...some arbitrary simple example i can think of; say you have a ActiveRecord model Item with records in the db ranging from 1-100, and u search for #101: class ItemController def example Item.find(101) # this raises an exception rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound # this will catch this specific exception flash[:notice]="the record was not found!" redirect_to :other_action end end in this example instead of the app crashing since no record was found, we send a message to the user via the other_action+flash message. the syntax of the rescue clauses are pretty simple; if you have the name of the Exception you can rescue that SPECIFIC exception like the example above. if you want to catch any old exception (doesn''t matter what the reason is) you can just write "rescue" without anything appended. you can also do multiple resuces, with each rescue rescuing a certain exception type. hope the link helps out too. good luck! http://ruby.activeventure.com/programmingruby/book/tut_exceptions.html -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---