ruby - How to create an exit message

Question

Is there a one line function call that quits the program and displays a message? I know in Perl it's as simple as:

die("Message goes here")

I'm tired of typing this:

puts "Message goes here"
exit

Answer 1

The abort function does this. For example:

abort("Message goes here")

Note: the abort message will be written to STDERR as opposed to puts which will write to STDOUT.