Ruby exception handling in else block

Question

So I have classic ruby exception handling:

begin
    # do work here
rescue SafeShutdown => e
    # prevent loss of data and safely shutdown
rescue SystemExit => e
    # print #{e} and continue
else
    # how can I get #{e} here to get error message
    # so I can behave like in previous rescue
    # 
    # print #{e} and continue
end

My question is how can I get "e" to print out in logger in else part of the block.

Answer 1

In the begin rescue block else is called only when no exception occurs, i.e. no error was thrown. Try this:

begin
  # do work here
rescue SafeShutdown => e
  # print e
rescue SystemExit => e
  # print e
else
  # this will only run when no exceptions are thrown
ensure
  # this will always run
end