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Reputation: 45

Collecting exceptions in ruby script

I'm writing a script which collects data from various url's. I want to collect errors from begin rescue blocks into an array to output them when the program runs in verbose mode. With normal use, a failed connection is ignored and the script moves on to the next url.

I thought the best way to do this would be to create an array errArray = Array.new at the top of the script to hold errors, and then do:

rescue Exception => e
  errArray << e.message

in various functions to log errors. The die function outputs the array using p unless it is empty. However, I get the error

Undefined local variable or method 'errArray'

Any help (and constructive criticism) appreciated.

EDIT: die function:

def die(e)
  p errorArray unless errorArray.empty?
# Some other irrelevant code
end

Upvotes: 2

Views: 600

Answers (1)

BroiSatse
BroiSatse

Reputation: 44725

errArray is not global variable and therefore methods have no access to it. You can declare it as a global variable by $err_array.

However the best solution would be create a simple class:

class ExceptionCollector

  def collect
    yield
  rescue => e
    errors << e.message
  end

  def errors
    @errors ||= []
  end
end

And then simple:

$logger = ExceptionCollector.new

$logger.collect do
  # this may raise an exception
end

def foo
  $logger.collect do
    # another exception
  end
end

$logger.errors    #=> list of errors

Upvotes: 4

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