Catching thread exceptions

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Steve Tuckner

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Recently I was helping a colleague who was new to Ruby with a program
that was using threads. It seemed to him that for some reason that some
of the thread's were not running. First he tried adding sleeps to the
main thread to "give time" to the other threads to run, but this didn't
work. It turns out that by joining the threads in question, that there
were errors in the program that were throwing exceptions that killed the
thread -- SILENTLY.

I don't know if there is a better way to do this, but this is the
solution we came up with to print out any exceptions that occur in a
thread (uncaught) and exit the program.

require "thread"

class MyThread < Thread
def initialize(*args, &block)
super(*args) do
begin
block.call
rescue Exception => e
$stderr.print "Exception occured: #{e.message} at " +
e.backtrace.join("\n")
exit! 1
end
end
end
end

Is there a better way?

Steve Tuckner

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S> Is there a better way?

Thread.abort_on_exception = true

svg% ruby -e 'Thread.new { raise "aa" }; p "after"'
"after"
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svg% ruby -e 'Thread.abort_on_exception = true; Thread.new { raise "aa" }; p "after"'
-e:1: aa (RuntimeError)
from -e:1:in `initialize'
from -e:1:in `new'
from -e:1
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Guy Decoux
 

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