Ruby: Custom Errors for Lazy Bums with const_missing

Catching errors is quite a normal thing when writing code, every programing language has some variation of the throw/catch, in Ruby's case, it's the elegant begin, rescue and ensure blocks.

At some point in every project you stop catching "other" people's errors and start catching your own.

So you start creating you own error classes, there's a couple common approaches I've seen over the years.

• Create an Errors namespace on each class/module you need and create errors for that there.
• Create a generic Project::Errors with its own file bag and throw all errors in there.

I usually go for the second approach, so error classes don't distract me, but that's more of a personal preference anyway.

However, I am a lazy bum and I've got tired of specified my error classes, so I made this Gist as an example:

The main idea behind this, is letting you freely type your errors as you need them both where they're being raised and rescued and you don't need to worry about they existing since they'll be created in runtime for you.

This method is probably not very efficient, but I don't care for this case.