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 block in a begin rescue end block is used when you are perhaps expecting an exception of some sort to occur. If you run through all of your expected exceptions but still have nothing raised, then in your else block you can do whatever's needed now that you know that your original code ran error free.