Sending mail when exception occured

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Hello!

I want to send e-mail when an exception will occur. What is important
mail should contain backtrace.
At first I redefined initialize method in
Exception class, it worked but of course I didn`t have access to
backtrace. Now I have redefined set_backtrace method. It works as
I want to, it`s access to backtrace and message of exception. I send
mail directly from set_backtrace, because I noticed that method is
called every
time an exception occurs.
Is it correct way? Maybe, you could propose better solution of my
problem?

Thanks in advance.
Michal

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Michal Lomnicki wrote:

Hello!

Hello!

Is it correct way?

Does it work? Does it allow you to go back to solving more interesting or valuable problems?

Not always the best criteria, but worth considering.

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Is it correct way?

Does it work? Does it allow you to go back to solving more interesting
or valuable problems?

Yes, it works, but I`m not sure if it works in all cases.
I`m just courious about other solution of this problem:)

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Unless I completely misunderstood you, why not just do:

begin
  # Do whatever it is you're going to do
rescue Exception => e
  # Create your email
  message_string = "An error has occurred. Backtrace: #{e.backtrace}"
  # Email it off however.
end

I get the strange feeling though that you want more than this...?

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On Friday 03 March 2006 18:16, Michal Lomnicki wrote:

>> Is it correct way?
>
> Does it work? Does it allow you to go back to solving more interesting
> or valuable problems?

Yes, it works, but I`m not sure if it works in all cases.
I`m just courious about other solution of this problem:)

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Unless I completely misunderstood you, why not just do:

begin
  # Do whatever it is you're going to do
rescue Exception => e
  # Create your email
  message_string = "An error has occurred. Backtrace: #{e.backtrace}"
  # Email it off however.
end

Of course it`s the simplest way, but I`ll have to invoke that in every
rescue block. So, let`s say that there is _uncatched_ exception, even
then mail should be sent. I redefined set_backtrace in Exception class.

I get the strange feeling though that you want more than this...?

I hope that now my problem is clear.

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