Description:

You know how to raise and rescue exceptions. But do you know how they work, and how to structure a robust error handling strategy for your app or library? Starting with an in-depth look at Ruby's failure handling mechanisms, we'll move on to talk about proven strategies for raising, handling, recording, and mitigating failures in Ruby.

Topics covered will include:

• Different methods of indicating failure
• Overriding Kernel#raise for fun and profit
• The exception lifecycle in detail
• Crash logging
• The three exception safety guarantees
• Exception safety testing
• Avoiding error cascades
• Structuring your exception classes
• ...and much more!