I find Ruby to be a really comfy language to use, both because it’s the first one I learned and so I already know where all the knobs are, and because it’s so malleable that you can easily do silly things like this, and as Gary Bernhardt said this is actually a result of how awesome Ruby is.

Thanks, it’s exactly as terrible as I was expecting :)

I’m sorry…

Original work, public domain, with some help from this:

require 'cgi'
require 'shellwords'

module StackOverflow
  def self.method_missing method, ex
    method = method =~ /=$/ ? method.to_s[0..-2] : method.to_s
    search = "[#{method.gsub('_', '-')}] #{ex.class}: #{ex.message}"
    escaped = CGI.escape(search)
    open_browser "https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=#{escaped}"
  end

  private

  def self.open_browser url
    if RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os'] =~ /mswin|mingw|cygwin/
      system ['start', url].shelljoin
    elsif RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os'] =~ /darwin/
      system ['open', url].shelljoin
    elsif RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os'] =~ /linux|bsd/
      system ['xdg-open', url].shelljoin
    end
  end
end

begin
  raise "lol"
rescue => StackOverflow.ruby
end