From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2010-12-30T17:30:09+09:00
Subject: Re: What way is true?

Yan Bernatsky wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have some method. What is preferable: use raise and rescue or use
> return?

In the example you've given, I'd use return most certainly, since you 
return false either way. Exceptions are great for 'out of band' 
notification of callers that something went wrong, not when the outcome 
is expected and has a return value allocated for it.

http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_exceptions.html

kaspar