RuntimeError

A generic error class raised when an invalid operation is attempted.

[1, 2, 3].freeze << 4

raises the exception:

RuntimeError: can't modify frozen array

Kernel#raise will raise a RuntimeError if no Exception class is specified.

raise "ouch"

raises the exception:

RuntimeError: ouch

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