I must say hiding the backtrace with x levels is a major annoyance. I know the "solution" is to "simply put begin/rescue around the error", but thats asinine. I noticed that the code that does this is deep in ruby's C implementation. Has anybody made ruby show the entire backtrace? I guess I could on my machine, but I'd rather not have to change the C code. Can this be resolved Ruby 1.9, if it is not already? Thanks, Brian Takita