devgrind

Dear fellow Ruby developers, please kick the habit of catching  and rethrowing exceptions, thus ridding your users of the expeptions’ stack traces. Recently I had to patch the source code of an ActiveRecord adapter as well as the underlying DBI implementation in order to find out where one particular exception was originating from. This makes debugging code really a hassle. I haven’t had this kind of problem in Java since nested exceptions.

Filed by Arne at 3:36 pm under development, programming, ruby, wtf
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