Ruby Keyword: break - rking/pry-docmore GitHub Wiki

Hops out of the inner-most loop. Like this:

%w(a b c).each do |i|
  print i
  32343.times do |j|
    break if j > 2
    print j
  end
end
puts

Prints:

a012b012c012

Also note that the keyword accepts an argument:

x = loop do break 3 end
p x
# ⇒ 3

Compare with: next, last