How to bail?

[sweatje]

Needed to exit early in a shell script I wrote in Ruby. I ended up with:

 raise SystemExit.new(status=0)

This is working fine, but I think I might be missing some other simpler means of accomplishing this.

[KTottE]

Well there is the Process.exit method. It basically does what you're doing except you don't have to type it all out.

exit(0) 

is the same as

raise SystemExit.new(status=0) 

[xmitchx]

I have a question also, similar to this. How can I quickly exit out of a method? Can I just do:

return someting

such as C/C++ or PHP?

EDIT: Sorry to kinda hijack your thread, i assume your question is answered

[sweatje]

I have a question also, similar to this. How can I quickly exit out of a method? Can I just do:

return someting

such as C/C++ or PHP?

EDIT: Sorry to kinda hijack your thread, i assume your question is answered

Sorry for the late response. Yes, return exits a function/method at the point where it is encountered:

>> def foo
>>   "bar"
>> end
=> nil
>> def foo2
>>   return "zaa"
>>   "bar"
>> end
=> nil
>>
?> foo
=> "bar"
>>
?> foo2
=> "zaa"
>>

[xmitchx]

Wonderful. I never have had the need [yet] to use this but I think I needed it at some time and decided to just use a simple if then to bypass it.

But now that I know this, im happy