Exception: StandardError
| Relationships & Source Files | |
| Extension / Inclusion / Inheritance Descendants | |
| Subclasses: 
          ArgumentError, ClosedQueueError, EOFError, EncodingError, FiberError, FloatDomainError, FrozenError, IOError, IndexError, KeyError, LocalJumpError, NameError, NoMatchingPatternError, NoMatchingPatternKeyError, NoMethodError, RangeError, RegexpError, RuntimeError, StopIteration, SystemCallError, ThreadError, TypeError, UncaughtThrowError, ZeroDivisionError, Encoding::CompatibilityError, Encoding::ConverterNotFoundError, Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError, Encoding::UndefinedConversionError, Math::DomainError, Ractor::ClosedError, Ractor::Error, Ractor::IsolationError, Ractor::MovedError, Ractor::RemoteError, Ractor::UnsafeError, IO::Buffer::AccessError, IO::Buffer::AllocationError, IO::Buffer::InvalidatedError, IO::Buffer::LockedError
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| Super Chains via Extension / Inclusion / Inheritance | |
| Class Chain: 
          self,
           ::Exception | |
| Instance Chain: 
          self,
           ::Exception | |
| Inherits: | Exception | 
| Defined in: | error.c | 
Overview
The most standard error types are subclasses of StandardError. A rescue clause without an explicit ::Exception class will rescue all StandardErrors (and only those).
def foo
  raise "Oups"
end
foo rescue "Hello"   #=> "Hello"On the other hand:
require 'does/not/exist' rescue "Hi"raises the exception:
LoadError: no such file to load -- does/not/existClass Attribute Summary
::Exception - Inherited
| .to_tty? | Returns  | 
Class Method Summary
::Exception - Inherited
| .exception | With no argument, or if the argument is the same as the receiver, return the receiver. | 
| .new | Construct a new  | 
Instance Method Summary
::Exception - Inherited
| #== | Equality—If obj is not an  | 
| #backtrace | Returns any backtrace associated with the exception. | 
| #backtrace_locations | Returns any backtrace associated with the exception. | 
| #cause | Returns the previous exception ($!) at the time this exception was raised. | 
| #exception | With no argument, or if the argument is the same as the receiver, return the receiver. | 
| #full_message | Returns formatted string of exception. | 
| #inspect | Return this exception’s class name and message. | 
| #message | Returns the result of invoking  | 
| #set_backtrace | Sets the backtrace information associated with  | 
| #to_s | Returns exception’s message (or the name of the exception if no message is set). | 
Constructor Details
This class inherits a constructor from Exception