This is part of the Semicolon&Sons Code Diary - consisting of lessons learned on the job. You're in the ruby category.
Last Updated: 2024-10-12
I defined the following exception:
module GenerateFinancialTransactionsReportService
class ReportRow
class ReportRowError < StandardError; end
end
end
Then I consumed it at top-level, outside of these modules
rescue ReportRowError => e
raise e.class, "Raw transaction #{raw_transaction}"
end
When the above code was run, it failed: the constant ReportRowError
was not found.
The fix was to fully qualify it, like I would any class in Ruby
rescue GenerateFinancialTransactionsReportService::ReportRow::ReportRowError => e
raise e.class, "Raw transaction #{raw_transaction}"
end
This should have been obvious to me: an exception behaves mostly like a class.