Question

I have inherited a project where the previous developers added this to the application controller:

rescue_from Exception, :with => :render_500

I presume that it was to catch this and render a dynamic page. Static pages were not acceptable, but I am unsure now as to why that is. In any case, this is messing up my ability to capture exceptions with Exceptional. Is there any way to re-raise the exception after the dynamic error page has been rendered?

I tried this:

def rescue_from(exception)
  respond_to |format|
    format.html { #render the page# }
  end
  raise exception
end

However, that, quite obviously, does not work. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You could manually post to exceptional — rather than try to re-raise and get Exceptional to catch and post.

def rescue_from(exception)
  ::Exceptional::Catcher.handle(exception)
  respond_to |format|
    format.html { #render the page# }
  end
end