From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2008-09-02T15:00:26+09:00
Subject: Re: how can I exit with a message in ruby?

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Lex Williams <etaern@yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi guys !
>
> does ruby have a die method ? or is it there a method that displays a
> string before exiting ?

Kernel#at_exit

You can register handlers that get executed when the program exits.

at_exit {puts "Dying"}
puts "In the program"

You can build your own method to print, such as:

module Kernel
def print_at_exit str
   at_exit {print str}
end
end

print_at_exit "goodbye"

Jesus.