Ruby != Rails. There are a lot of bang! methods that will raise on error in Rails. But in general Ruby is just like Python in that it is indeed common to use exceptions for control flow.
I know Ruby != Rails but the example wasn’t mine. It was from the paragraph I quoted from the post, which conflates the two.
It may be true in Python--I don’t use it much--but I know Ruby well. It was my primary language for 13 years, at multiple companies. I taught it to over a thousand engineers at Airbnb over the course of five years. I still disagree that it is common to use exceptions for control flow.
Maybe it’s a matter of the interpretation of the word “common.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
