I take exception...

• #wait for user input, after 10 seconds use default
  require 'timeout'
  input = "default"
  begin
    timeout(10) {
      input = gets
    }
  rescue TimeoutError
    puts "moving on with default"
  end
  

• Raising exceptions (kind of like using die in Perl)

  • raise YAML_Error, "Parse Error"