Ruby Exceptions — Why “else”?

Question

I\'m trying to understand exceptions in Ruby but I\'m a little confused. The tutorial I\'m using says that if an exception occurs that does not match any of the exceptions iden

Answer 1

The else is for when the block completes without an exception thrown. The ensure is run whether the block completes successfully or not. Example:

begin
  puts "Hello, world!"
rescue
  puts "rescue"
else
  puts "else"
ensure
  puts "ensure"
end

This will print Hello, world!, then else, then ensure.