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Error handling with Monads in Ruby

“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” - Murphy’s Law

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Intro

Many modern languages, including Ruby, use Exceptions as the primary method of error handling.

In this blog post, I will walk you through the history of error handling.

I will briefly describe popular options but will mostly focus on the pros and cons of Exceptions before demonstrating how monads might provide a better approach in some applications.

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