Ruby equivalent for Python's for / else

Question

I've always been searching for something like Python's while / else struct in Ruby to improve my code.

That means that the loop is executed and if the condition in the loop hasn't been true any time, then it returns the value in the else statement.

In ruby, I can do like this :

if @items.empty?
  "Empty"
else
  @items.each do |item|
    item
  end
end

So is there a way to improve this ?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Remember that the iterator block returns what you put into it, which can be tested for further use.

if arr.each do |item|
  item.some_action(some_arg)
end.empty?
  else_condition_here
end