7 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching.rb
index 5461a2eadd..7eecb15e9b 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching.rb
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
             if f =~ matcher
               begin
                 File.delete(f)
-              rescue Object => e
+              rescue SystemCallError => e
                 # If there's no cache, then there's nothing to complain about
               end
             end
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb
index bb7be80560..6cb38a38f3 100755
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class CGIMethods #:nodoc:
           node = XmlNode.from_xml(raw_post_data)
           { node.node_name => node }
       end
-    rescue Object => e
+    rescue Exception => e # YAML, XML or Ruby code block errors
       { "exception" => "#{e.message} (#{e.class})", "backtrace" => e.backtrace, 
         "raw_post_data" => raw_post_data, "format" => mime_type }
     end
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dependencies.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dependencies.rb
index 0f4c16cad4..d316552f49 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dependencies.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dependencies.rb
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
               require_dependency(dependency.to_s)
             rescue LoadError => e
               raise LoadError.new("Missing #{layer} #{dependency}.rb").copy_blame!(e)
-            rescue Object => exception
+            rescue Exception => exception  # error from loaded file
               exception.blame_file! "=> #{layer} #{dependency}.rb"
               raise
             end
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb
index 7cd05eab32..dd670fe96d 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
       def perform_action_with_rescue #:nodoc:
         begin
           perform_action_without_rescue
-        rescue Object => exception
+        rescue Exception => exception  # errors from action performed
           if defined?(Breakpoint) && params["BP-RETRY"]
             msg = exception.backtrace.first
             if md = /^(.+?):(\d+)(?::in `(.+)')?$/.match(msg) then
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb
index b38501359c..f3e2347d45 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ module ActionView #:nodoc:
           else
             CompiledTemplates.module_eval(render_source, 'compiled-template', -line_offset)
           end
-        rescue Object => e
+        rescue Exception => e  # errors from template code
           if logger
             logger.debug "ERROR: compiling #{render_symbol} RAISED #{e}"
             logger.debug "Function body: #{render_source}"
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/compiled_templates.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/compiled_templates.rb
index a00a7578bb..deb730f4da 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/compiled_templates.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/compiled_templates.rb
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ module ActionView
       begin
         module_eval(method_def, fake_file_name, initial_line_number)
         @mtimes[full_key(identifier, arg_names)] = Time.now
-      rescue Object => e
+      rescue Exception => e  # errors from compiled source
         e.blame_file! identifier
         raise
       end
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/debug_helper.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/debug_helper.rb
index 8baea6f450..9e92813a18 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/debug_helper.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/debug_helper.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ module ActionView
         begin
           Marshal::dump(object)
           "<pre class='debug_dump'>#{h(object.to_yaml).gsub("  ", "&nbsp; ")}</pre>"
-        rescue Object => e
+        rescue Exception => e  # errors from Marshal or YAML
           # Object couldn't be dumped, perhaps because of singleton methods -- this is the fallback
           "<code class='debug_dump'>#{h(object.inspect)}</code>"
         end