Method: Exception#backtrace

Defined in:
error.c

#backtrace ⇒ Array

Returns any backtrace associated with the exception. The backtrace is an array of strings, each containing either “filename:lineNo: in ‘method”’ or “filename:lineNo.”

def a
  raise "boom"
end

def b
  a()
end

begin
  b()
rescue => detail
  print detail.backtrace.join("\n")
end

produces:

prog.rb:2:in `a'
prog.rb:6:in `b'
prog.rb:10

Returns:



486
487
488
 
# File 'error.c', line 486

static VALUE
exc_backtrace(exc)
VALUE exc;