Is there any way to start the Ruby debugger on exception?

Question

Is there any way to start the/a Ruby debugger whenever the code throws an exception, without me wrapping the code like this:

begin
  #do something
rescue
  d         


        

Answer 1

In RubyMine 2.0.x go to Run -> View Breakpoints and click "Ruby Exception Breakpoints" tab, then add the type of the exception you are interested in...

There should be something similar in NetBeans and other Ruby IDEs i guess.

BTW, RubyMine is the BEST!