Method: Exception#backtrace_locations

Defined in:

error.c

#backtrace_locations ⇒ Array^?

Returns the backtrace (the list of code locations that led to the exception), as an array of Thread::Backtrace::Location instances.

Example (assuming the code is stored in the file named t.rb):

def division(numerator, denominator)
  numerator / denominator
end

begin
  division(1, 0)
rescue => ex
  p ex.backtrace_locations
  # ["t.rb:2:in 'Integer#/'", "t.rb:2:in 'Object#division'", "t.rb:6:in '<main>'"]
  loc = ex.backtrace_locations.first
  p loc.class
  # Thread::Backtrace::Location
  p loc.path
  # "t.rb"
  p loc.lineno
  # 2
  p loc.label
  # "Integer#/"
end

The value returned by this method might be adjusted when raising (see Kernel#raise), or during intermediate handling by #set_backtrace.

See also #backtrace that provide the same value as an array of strings. (Note though that two values might not be consistent with each other when backtraces are manually adjusted.)

See Backtraces.

Returns:

• (Array, nil)

# File 'error.c', line 1972

static VALUE
exc_backtrace_locations(VALUE exc)
{
    VALUE obj;

    obj = rb_attr_get(exc, id_bt_locations);
    if (!NIL_P(obj)) {
        obj = rb_backtrace_to_location_ary(obj);
    }
    return obj;
}