Defining custom errors in Ruby

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

Reference such an error class with Errormaster::CoffeeIsOut.

Dominik Schöler

Last edit

2012-05-27

Keywords

Rails, exception

License

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Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2011-09-09 12:39)