b) makes sense, though it is surprising: I mean developer-defined errors are usually Exceptions, and should be caught too, no ? I need to pick up my ruby book again.
Elise On Oct 31, 10:05 am, "James Mead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Elise, > > 2008/10/31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > - mocking (ok, i'm using mocha, so maybe it isn't rspec): i make a > > mailer raise an error like this: > > DummyMailer.stubs(:deliver_invitation).raises(Exception) > > and in my code, surround this with begin ... rescue, the exception is > > not caught ! > > a) Are you sure deliver_invitation is being called? > b) Are you using just a default rescue clause? This will only rescue > StandardError's and descendants of StandardError. Exception is not a > descendant of StandardError. I think Mocha raises a StandardError by > default, so if you change your stubbing as follows, a default rescue clause > will work... > > DummyMailer.stubs(:deliver_invitation).raises > > If you are still seeing unexpected behaviour, come over to the Mocha mailing > list [1] and we'll see if we can help. > > -- > James.http://blog.floehopper.org > > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/mocha-developer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
