From 1f141f440a48992b32c3402c88ba51e7e8e6320c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Hille <thomahi@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 13:50:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added fallback to recommendation if something went completely
 wrong

---
 app/models/proxy_exercise.rb | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/models/proxy_exercise.rb b/app/models/proxy_exercise.rb
index 3b5b43c4..6f177778 100644
--- a/app/models/proxy_exercise.rb
+++ b/app/models/proxy_exercise.rb
@@ -32,7 +32,13 @@ class ProxyExercise < ActiveRecord::Base
           assigned_user_proxy_exercise.exercise
         else
           Rails.logger.info("find new matching exercise for user #{user.id}" )
-          matching_exercise = find_matching_exercise(user)
+          matching_exercise =
+              begin
+                find_matching_exercise(user)
+              rescue #fallback
+                Rails.logger.error("finding matching exercise failed. Fall back to random exercise! Error: #{$!}" )
+                exercises.shuffle.first
+              end
           user.user_proxy_exercise_exercises << UserProxyExerciseExercise.create(user: user, exercise: matching_exercise, proxy_exercise: self)
           matching_exercise
         end