I know this isn't the point of your comments, but I'll take the opportunity to point out that Ruby has a case statement that reads a lot better for code like th

I know this isn't the point of your comments, but I'll take the opportunity to point out that Ruby has a case statement that reads a lot better for code like this: case when user.blacklisted? # ... code ... when grouper.full? # ... code ... # ... and so on ... end