How do I return early from a rake task?

Question

I have a rake task where I do some checks at the beginning, if one of the checks fails I would like to return early from the rake task, I don\'t want to execute any of the r

Answer 1

If you need to break out of multiple block levels, you can use fail.

For example

task :something do
  [1,2,3].each do |i|
    ...
    fail "some error" if ...
  end
end

(See https://stackoverflow.com/a/3753955/11543.)