# How can I exit with a message in ruby?

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**Created:** [2 September 2008 05:43 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/how-can-i-exit-with-a-message-in-ruby/48799 "2008-09-02T05:43:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lex\_Williams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Lex\_Williams](https://rubytalk.org/u/Lex_Williams)\
**Post date:** [2 September 2008 05:43 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/how-can-i-exit-with-a-message-in-ruby/48799/1 "2008-09-02T05:43:19Z")

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hi guys !

does ruby have a die method ? or is it there a method that displays a  
string before exiting ?

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**Author:** ![Jesus\_Gabriel\_y\_Gala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@Jesus\_Gabriel\_y\_Gala](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jesus_Gabriel_y_Gala)\
**Post date:** [2 September 2008 06:00 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/how-can-i-exit-with-a-message-in-ruby/48799/2 "2008-09-02T06:00:26Z")

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Kernel#at\_exit

You can register handlers that get executed when the program exits.

at\_exit {puts "Dying"}  
puts "In the program"

You can build your own method to print, such as:

module Kernel  
def print\_at\_exit str  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at\_exit {print str}  
end  
end

print\_at\_exit "goodbye"

Jesus.

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> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Lex Williams \<etaern@yahoo.com\> wrote:
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> > hi guys !
> > 
> > does ruby have a die method ? or is it there a method that displays a  
> > string before exiting ?

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**Author:** ![Bill\_Kelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Bill\_Kelly](https://rubytalk.org/u/Bill_Kelly)\
**Post date:** [2 September 2008 06:09 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/how-can-i-exit-with-a-message-in-ruby/48799/3 "2008-09-02T06:09:51Z")

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> does ruby have a die method ? or is it there a method that displays a  
> string before exiting ?

abort "bye..."

Hope this helps,

Bill

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**Author:** ![Lex\_Williams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Lex\_Williams](https://rubytalk.org/u/Lex_Williams)\
**Post date:** [2 September 2008 07:26 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/how-can-i-exit-with-a-message-in-ruby/48799/4 "2008-09-02T07:26:22Z")

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Bill Kelly wrote:

> From: "Lex Williams" \<etaern@yahoo.com\>
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> > does ruby have a die method ? or is it there a method that displays a  
> > string before exiting ?
> 
> abort "bye..."
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> Hope this helps,
> 
> Bill

Thanks Bill , just what I was looking for .

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