How to create an exit message

Question

Is there a one line function call that quits the program and displays a message? I know in Perl it\'s as simple as:

die(\"Message goes here\")

Answer 1

I've never heard of such a function, but it would be trivial enough to implement...

def die(msg)
  puts msg
  exit
end

Then, if this is defined in some .rb file that you include in all your scripts, you are golden.... just because it's not built in doesn't mean you can't do it yourself ;-)