title: Is the use of return in Ruby not idiomatic?
body: <p>I have been refactoring some code today and have made a lot of my methods much neater with fairly heavy use of <code>return</code>. One thing that occurred to me is how infrequently I have seen return used in sample code, blog posts, etc, which led me to think that I'm doing something wrong.</p>
  
  <p>Is using return not idiomatic in Ruby? Should I be aiming to just have my methods just return a final value through <code>if</code>/<code>else</code>, <code>case</code>/<code>when</code> statements, rather than interrupt them early with <code>return</code>?</p>