Rescue Exception in Ruby is not a good idea.

gistfile1.rb

Snippet from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10048173/why-is-it-bad-style-to-rescue-exception-e-in-ruby?lq=1

Rescuing Exception will resuce all types of exceptions, including signals.

  loop do
    begin
      sleep 1
      eval "djsakru3924r9eiuorwju3498 += 5u84fior8u8t4ruyf8ihiure"
    rescue Exception
      puts "I refuse to fail or be stopped!"
    end
  end

[portaj@portaj-air notes]$ ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
I refuse to fail or be stopped!
I refuse to fail or be stopped!
I refuse to fail or be stopped!
I refuse to fail or be stopped!
^V^VI refuse to fail or be stopped!
vI refuse to fail or be stopped!
vvvvvI refuse to fail or be stopped!
I refuse to fail or be stopped!


I refuse to fail or be stopped!
^CI refuse to fail or be stopped!
^CI refuse to fail or be stopped!

I refuse to fail or be stopped!
I refuse to fail or be stopped!
I refuse to fail or be stopped!
I refuse to fail or be stopped!
^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
[portaj@portaj-air notes]$
[portaj@portaj-air notes]$ ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
I refuse to fail or be stopped!
^Z
[2]+  Stopped                 ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
[portaj@portaj-air notes]$ ps aux | grep ruby
portaj   14837  0.0  0.3 185740 25032 pts/0    Sl+  05:13   0:00 ruby /home/portaj/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/guard
portaj   14843  0.0  0.6 1050060 51172 pts/0   Sl+  05:13   0:00 ruby /home/portaj/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/guard-2.12.5/bin/_guard-core
portaj   17680  0.0  0.1 142836  9228 pts/2    Tl   05:39   0:00 ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
portaj   17688  0.0  0.1 142856  9264 pts/2    Tl   05:40   0:00 ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
portaj   17712  0.0  0.0 113008  2160 pts/2    S+   05:40   0:00 grep --color=auto ruby
[portaj@portaj-air notes]$ kill 17680
[portaj@portaj-air notes]$ ps aux | grep ruby
portaj   14837  0.0  0.3 185740 25032 pts/0    Sl+  05:13   0:00 ruby /home/portaj/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/guard
portaj   14843  0.0  0.6 1050060 51172 pts/0   Sl+  05:13   0:00 ruby /home/portaj/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/guard-2.12.5/bin/_guard-core
portaj   17680  0.0  0.1 142836  9228 pts/2    Tl   05:39   0:00 ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
portaj   17688  0.0  0.1 142856  9264 pts/2    Tl   05:40   0:00 ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
portaj   17720  0.0  0.0 113008  2260 pts/2    S+   05:41   0:00 grep --color=auto ruby
[portaj@portaj-air notes]$ kill -9 17680
[1]-  Killed                  ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
[portaj@portaj-air notes]$ ps aux | grep ruby
portaj   14837  0.0  0.3 185740 25032 pts/0    Sl+  05:13   0:00 ruby /home/portaj/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/guard
portaj   14843  0.0  0.6 1050060 51172 pts/0   Sl+  05:13   0:00 ruby /home/portaj/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/guard-2.12.5/bin/_guard-core
portaj   17688  0.0  0.1 142856  9264 pts/2    Tl   05:40   0:00 ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
portaj   17728  0.0  0.0 113008  2248 pts/2    S+   05:41   0:00 grep --color=auto ruby
[portaj@portaj-air notes]$ kill -9 17688
[2]+  Killed                  ruby ./ruby-exceptions-bad.rb
[portaj@portaj-air notes]$ ps aux | grep ruby
portaj   14837  0.0  0.3 185740 25032 pts/0    Sl+  05:13   0:00 ruby /home/portaj/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/guard
portaj   14843  0.0  0.6 1050060 51172 pts/0   Sl+  05:13   0:00 ruby /home/portaj/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/guard-2.12.5/bin/_guard-core
portaj   17738  0.0  0.0 113008  2276 pts/2    S+   05:41   0:00 grep --color=auto ruby
[portaj@portaj-air notes]$