Defining custom errors in Ruby

Dominik Schöler

September 09, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

class Errormaster
  CoffeeIsOut = Class.new(StandardError)
  
  # is prettier than
  class CoffeeIsOut < StandardError; end
end

Reference such an error class with Errormaster::CoffeeIsOut.

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License for source code

Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2011-09-09 14:39)