Question

begin
#some routine
rescue
retry
#on third retry, output "no dice!"
end

I want to make it so that on the “third” retry, print a message.

Answer 1

Possibly not the best solution, but a simple way is just to make a tries variable.

tries = 0
begin
  # some routine
rescue
  tries += 1
  retry if tries <= 3
  puts "no dice!"
end