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# What To Do When You Don't Rescue
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Ruby's `rescue` syntax supports a couple different blocks. I was already
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familiar with `ensure` which is a block of code that will be executed
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regardless of whether or not an exception was rescued.
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```ruby
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begin
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do_something_that_could_fail()
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rescue StandardError => e
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// oh no!
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ensure
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Logging.info("We attempted to do the thing.")
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end
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```
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What if you want to differentiatee between an instance when your code ran
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without incident and when there was an exception? Ruby's `rescue` syntax also
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supports an `else` block. The `else` block is executed only when nothing is
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rescued.
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```ruby
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begin
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do_something_that_could_fail()
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rescue StandardError => e
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Logging.info("We tried to do something and it failed.")
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else
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Logging.info("We successfully did the thing!")
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end
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```
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There are a lot of ways to use this. Here I was able to differentiate the
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messaging in my logging based on whether or not an exception occurred.
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[source](https://blog.bigbinary.com/2017/10/24/ruby-2.5-allows-rescue-inside-do-end-blocks.html)
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