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Wrapping Exceptions in Ruby

March 31, 2021

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Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

About This Episode

Sometimes you may need to wrap and reraise an exception. Ruby 2.1+ makes this easy by letting us raise a new error, pass in the old one, and automatically assigns the exceptions "cause" which is the original exception.

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