I just released an eBook about exceptions and failure handling in Ruby

Post by bstar » Wed, May 04, 2011, 4:34 PM UTC

zizzler wrote: post #5

Bought the book, found out Ruby has retry. Money well spent.

Post by telemachos » Wed, May 04, 2011, 4:54 PM UTC

hiperlink wrote: post #10

telemachos wrote: post #8

I'm loving the recent explosion in self-published books, but as a (general) request: they are so, so much more useful when they come in multiple formats (mobi, epub and pdf).

What to say when comment upvote counts are gone. Can't upvote this enough. (For me, mobi prefered.)

Post by codenerdz » Wed, May 04, 2011, 5:02 PM UTC

codenerdz wrote: post #14

zizzler wrote: post #5

Bought the book, found out Ruby has retry. Money well spent.

Wow, the timing could not be more perfect as Im trying to deal with a validate_uniqueness race condition :)

Post by pbreit » Wed, May 04, 2011, 7:31 PM UTC

Post by avdi » Wed, May 04, 2011, 7:47 PM UTC

umjames wrote: post #18

listrophy wrote: post #4

After seeing Avdi talk about this at Ruby on Ales, I've started using `fail` almost exclusively instead of `raise.` It's the little things.

I quick check of the Ruby documentation ( http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/ ) suggests that raise and fail are the same method. Is there an actual difference between these methods?