Question

Is there a library or easy way to catch exceptions thrown in a Ruby program and log it to a file? I’ve looked over log4r and logger, but the docs on both don’t provide any examples on how I would do this. I run this program remotely and lose handles to stdout and stderr, if that information helps at all.

What would you recommend?

Answer 1

If you want to take a walk on the wild side, try this:

class Exception   alias real_init initialize   def initialize(*args)     real_init *args     # log the error (self) or its args here   end end 

This will intercept the creation of new exception objects at the moment of creation.