# Prettier stack traces

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prettier-stack-traces/169883>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [June 9, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prettier-stack-traces/169883 "2009-06-09T23:08:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prettier-stack-traces/169883/1 "2009-06-09T23:08:15Z")

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## Hi When I use the console i get pretty error messages or at least error messages without the stacktrace of IronRuby internal calls. How do I get this pretty stack trace when hosting IronRuby in my own application?

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**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prettier-stack-traces/169883/2 "2009-06-09T23:17:39Z")

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hi ivan,

this code snippet does the trick.  
object result = null;  
try  
{  
result = m\_engine.Execute(code, scope);  
}  
catch (Exception e)  
{  
var exception\_service =  
m\_engine.GetService();  
string message, typeName;  
exception\_service.GetExceptionMessage(e, out message,  
out  
typeName);  
var backtrace = exception\_service.FormatException(e);  
Console.WriteLine(backtrace);  
}

hth,  
– henon

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ivan Porto C.  
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