I don't write ruby at all, but this is how I write my Java, Kotlin, and Javascript; fail-fast at the top of the method, with the happy path following. And I'll

I don't write ruby at all, but this is how I write my Java, Kotlin, and Javascript; fail-fast at the top of the method, with the happy path following. And I'll take it one step further: I see a multi-line branch as a code smell in and of itself. If something in a branch takes multiple statements, I am of the opinion that the body of that branch should probably broken out into a method. So if we're going off the article title, my code might look something like val isNotRubyDev = !user.isRubyDev if(isNotRubyDev) return // ...read article