[ddebernardy]

> I'm sad all the Ruby guides I've seen ban "and" and "or". I don't find them to be such an issue, and they are nicer to type & read. For one thing you can say `foo or raise "msg"` but need parens to say `foo || raise("msg")`.

To me your example seems to be the proper use of the `and` and `or` statements - unless the team decided that the `raise("msg") unless foo` variation was preferable.