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graywh on Dec 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Github Ruby Styleguide

That's a good example

  shirt.blue? and return bar

would be equivalent to

  return bar if shirt.blue?

You can do the same with or and unless.

philwelch on Dec 12, 2012 [–]

I find the postfix if and unless far more readable than the Perlish and and or operators. The "or die" construction for asserts is really amusing though.

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