Implementing the 'case' statement in order to match multiple 'when' conditions

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3 and I would like to use a case statement that even after matching a when statement can continue to checks other when statement until the last else.

For example

case var
when '1'
  if var2 == ...
    ...
  else
    ...
    puts "Don't make nothig but continue to check!"
    # Here I would like to continue to check if a 'when' statement will match 'var' until the 'else' case
  end
when '2'
  ...
...
else
  put "Yeee!"

end

Is it possible in Ruby? If so, how?

Answer 1

Most of the code I see coming from ruby is done with if elsif else but you can mimic switch logical expressions similar to other languages like this:

case var
when 1
  dosomething
when 2..3
  doSomethingElse
end

case
when var == 1
   doSomething
when var < 12
   doSomethingElse
end

This came from this SO Question. Like I said this is usually done with if elsif else in ruby such as:

if my_number == "1"
   #do stuff when equals 1
elsif my_number == "e"
   #same thing here
else
   #default, no case found
end