[Fxruby-users] Re: catching exceptions in event handlers

[Aaron S. <aa...@sc...>]

At 15:40 +0100 23 Jul 2003, Emmanuel Touzery <emm...@wa...> wrote:
> C:\programs\glossary\test>ruby test.rb
> test.rb:38:in `onCmdOpen': undefined local variable or method `pouf' for
> #<Gloss
> aryMainWindow:0x52d3c78> (NameError)
>         from test.rb:61:in `run'
>         from test.rb:61

NameError exceptions don't get caught by a bare rescue since that's
equivalent to "rescue StandardError".  If you truly want to catch all
exceptions you need to use "rescue Exception".

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