Method: Exception#to_s

Defined in:
error.c

#to_s ⇒ String

Returns a string representation of self:

x = RuntimeError.new('Boom')
x.to_s # => "Boom"
x = RuntimeError.new
x.to_s # => "RuntimeError"

Returns:



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# File 'error.c', line 1577

static VALUE
exc_to_s(VALUE exc)
{
    VALUE mesg = rb_attr_get(exc, idMesg);

    if (NIL_P(mesg)) return rb_class_name(CLASS_OF(exc));
    return rb_String(mesg);
}