In 2012, Intel had a site called esaa-members.com. It was supposed to be some type of authorized hardware catalog, with recipes for building computers out of kn

In 2012, Intel had a site called esaa-members.com. It was supposed to be some type of authorized hardware catalog, with recipes for building computers out of known-to-be compatible parts. Anyways, there was a daily import of the hardware data, which was kicked off by a small Ruby script that downloaded some CSV file over SFTP. It was tiny, and all it did was put the CSV in a folder, to be processed by another script down the line. Occasionally though, there would be a network error, and it wouldn't write the file. When this happened, the next script that looked for the file wouldn't find it, and would send out an email alert. That's when I discovered that you could write a GOTO statement in Ruby! I made a very minor addition to the beginning and end of the script, a label at the top, and a goto at the bottom for if the CSV file didn't exist. I had added my email to the list of alerts, and after that GOTO was added, I never saw another alert.