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Rails 2.0 to include Exceptional-style error handling

September 30th, 2007

DHH posted today about the recently released preview release for rails 2.0. One notable piece of the update is introduction to a rescue_from directive that provides an easier interface to handling errors than rescue_action_in_public. If any of you have used Exceptional, you know this is very similar to what exceptional provides. Not surprisingly, both the core team and me drew our inspiration from John Wilger who as far as I can see came up with the original idea.

It’s cool to see that the core team made similar improvements to the idea that I did. That tells me that at least I wasn’t clueless in my designs for the plugin.

I guess this means exceptional will fade off into the sunset. I know it has been good to me, and will live on in past projects. I imagine that we at Satisfaction will replace it with the core code when we upgrade to 2.0.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 at 4:24 pm and is filed under ruby, programming.

2 Responses to “Rails 2.0 to include Exceptional-style error handling”

  1. Robert Nasiadek Says:
    November 22nd, 2007 at 6:25 am

    Hello,

    I’d like to use Exceptional for my rails 1.2.5 app, but the link to code repository is broken? Is there any way I could get the plugin?

    thanks in advance!

  2. nullstyle Says:
    November 22nd, 2007 at 6:37 am

    Robert,

    Could you send me your email address to nullstyle@gmail.com? I can send you a zip of the latest code.

    I’m in progress of moving my code repos over to git from mercurial, but have been endlessly delayed by real life :)

    -Scott

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