Many languages come with a feature that usually takes the name cond statement. It is essentially another way of writing an if-elsif-else statement. The first conditional in the cond statement to evaluate to true will then have its block evaluated.
Ruby doesn't have a cond statement, but it does have a case statement.
By using a case statement with no arguments, we get a cond statement. If
we exclude arguments and then put arbitrary conditional statements after the
when keywords, we get a construct that acts like a cond statement. Check
out the following example:
some_string = "What"
case
when some_string.downcase == some_string
puts "The string is all lowercase."
when some_string.upcase == some_string
puts "The string is all uppercase."
else
puts "The string is mixed case."
end
#=> The string is mixed case.