Comments on: Don’t Rethrow, Please http://devgrind.com/2008/09/08/dont-rethrow-please/ thinking outside the { } Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:17:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Suraj Kurapati http://devgrind.com/2008/09/08/dont-rethrow-please/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Suraj Kurapati Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:17:06 +0000 http://devgrind.com/?p=51#comment-177 What if we re-raise the same error we rescued? begin raise 'foo!' rescue => error error.message.insert 0, "error when trying to do foo: " raise error end Then you won't lose the original stack trace and you'll get added information in the error message. What if we re-raise the same error we rescued?

begin
raise ‘foo!’
rescue => error
error.message.insert 0, “error when trying to do foo: ”
raise error
end

Then you won’t lose the original stack trace and you’ll get added information in the error message.

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