rubyexceptionrescue

How to abort a Ruby script when raising an Exception?

Is it possible, in Ruby, to raise an Exception that will also automatically abort the program, ignoring any enclosing begin/rescue blocks?

Solution

  • Unfortunately, none of these exit answers will work. exit raises SystemExit which can be caught. Observe:

    begin
  exit
rescue SystemExit
end

puts "Still here!"

    As @dominikh says, you need to use exit! instead:

    begin
  exit!
rescue SystemExit
end

puts "Didn't make it here :("