From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2011-01-21T05:51:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34683] Re: Returning from the callee

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 19:27, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
<rr.rosas@gmail.com> wrote:

> return nil.tap { render text: 'failed' } unless request.valid?

unless request.valid?
  render text: 'failed'
  return nil
end
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or

if request.valid?
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else
  render text: 'failed'
  nil
end

or

return render_failure unless request.valid?
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def render_failure
  render text: 'failed'
  nil
end

The example you keep giving seems to have its problems stem from
poorly factored code, not the lack of non-local exits.