I use rufus scheduler to run overnight test scripts by calling my functions.
Sometimes I can see "scheduler caught exception:" a message that threw some of my functions. Then scheduler stops execution of following test cases.
How can I make it so scheduler runs all test cases regardless of any exception caught?
This is called "exception swallowing". You intercept an exception and don't do anything with it.
begin
# do some dangerous stuff, like running test scripts
rescue => ex
# do nothing here, except for logging, maybe
end
If you do not need to do anything with the exception, you can omit the => ex:
begin
# do some dangerous stuff, like running test scripts
rescue; end
If you need to rescue Exceptions that don't subclass from StandardError, you need to be more explicit:
begin
# do some dangerous stuff, like running test scripts
rescue Exception
# catches EVERY exception
end
I will sometimes use the fact that you can pass blocks to a method, and I have the method rescue errors, and my code can continue on its way.
def check_block
yield
rescue NoMethodError => e
<<-EOR
Error raised with message "#{e}".
Backtrace would be #{e.backtrace.join('')}
EOR
end
puts check_block {"some string".sort.inspect}
puts check_block {['some', 'array'].sort.inspect}
This first block will go through and rescue with a report returned, the second will operate normally.
This rescue only rescues NoMethodError while you may need to rescue other errors.
