How do I get the type (class) of exception thrown by any given peice of code ? I was playing with sockets and wanted to rescue the "<Errno::E10061: No connection could be made..." exception. My dumb way was to try and guess it by looking at the heirarchy tree on Page 93 of PickAxe. After a couple of wrong guesses finally found out it was RuntimeError. But what if it was none of those (like the TimeoutError)? Surely, there is a smart (Ruby) way to do this ? -- shanko