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

I tend to use abort which is a better alternative in such situations, for example:

task :foo do
  something = false
  abort 'Failed to proceed' unless something
end