Conditionally exiting the current method?

Ruby
1

I’m trying to exit a running method after a certain condition is met. I
have a master method executing sever methods within the same class.

Example:

def self.method_1(user)
words = ["hello", "goodbye", "bonjour"]
user.strings.each do |string|
    words.each do |word|
      if string.text.downcase.include? word.downcase
        puts "I found #{word}"
      end
    end
  end

end

def self.method_2
    put "This is method 2"
end

In the above example, how do I stop execution on [method_1] after [puts
“I found #{word}”] so it can continue on to [method_2]?

2

On Jul 12, 2009, at 22:28 , Jason B. wrote:

reformatted for readability:

def self.method_2
put “This is method 2”
end

In the above example, how do I stop execution on [method_1] after
[puts
“I found #{word}”] so it can continue on to [method_2]?

First off, don’t use #each when you don’t need to. Look at the methods
available in Enumerable. There is a lot of candy and magic there.
Further, words is an array, and all the contents are already
downcased, so you’re doing a lot of extra work where you don’t need
to. Check it:

def self.method_1(user)
words = %w(hello goodbye bonjour)
word = user.strings.find { |string|
words.find { |word| string.text.downcase.include? word }
}
puts “I found #{word}” if word
end

Since words is an array of words and you’re just looking for a match
of one of those words inside the user strings, use a regexp:

def self.method_1 user
words = Regexp.union %w(hello goodbye bonjour)
word = user.strings.any? { |string| string.text =~ words }
puts “I found #{word}” if word
end

Depending on how user.strings is composed, it might be cleaner and
faster to use grep:

def self.method_1 user
words = user.strings.grep Regexp.union(%w(hello goodbye bonjour))
puts “I found #{words.first}” unless words.empty?
end

You may have to do some massaging to get it to work with whatever type
of object user.strings returns, but the idea is the same.

3

just call return.

Greetz!