Ruby on Fails: Effective Error Handling with Rails Conventions

Explore effective error handling techniques in Ruby on Rails applications during this 30-minute conference talk. Discover various approaches to error management, from never raising errors to using custom errors, rescue_from, result objects, and monads. Examine the diverse opinions among developers and evaluate whether any single method is universally correct. Learn how to leverage Rails conventions for error handling and understand the tradeoffs associated with different strategies. Gain insights into safe default practices for defining your application's error-handling architecture, based on patterns observed in typical Rails applications.