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为Chuck的答案添加更多示例：

使用参数：

case a
when 1
  puts "Single value"
when 2, 3
  puts "One of comma-separated values"
when 4..6
  puts "One of 4, 5, 6"
when 7...9
  puts "One of 7, 8, but not 9"
else
  puts "Any other thing"
end

无参数：

case
when b < 3
  puts "Little than 3"
when b == 3
  puts "Equal to 3"
when (1..10) === b
  puts "Something in closed range of [1..10]"
end

请注意kikito警告的“如何在Ruby中编写switch语句”。

在Ruby 2.0中，您还可以在case语句中使用lambdas，如下所示：

is_even = ->(x) { x % 2 == 0 }

case number
when 0 then puts 'zero'
when is_even then puts 'even'
else puts 'odd'
end

您还可以使用Struct和自定义===

Moddable = Struct.new(:n) do
  def ===(numeric)
    numeric % n == 0
  end
end

mod4 = Moddable.new(4)
mod3 = Moddable.new(3)

case number
when mod4 then puts 'multiple of 4'
when mod3 then puts 'multiple of 3'
end

（示例取自“在Ruby 2.0中，procs可以与case语句一起使用吗？”。）

或者，对于完整的类：

class Vehicle
  def ===(another_vehicle)
    self.number_of_wheels == another_vehicle.number_of_wheels
  end
end

four_wheeler = Vehicle.new 4
two_wheeler = Vehicle.new 2

case vehicle
when two_wheeler
  puts 'two wheeler'
when four_wheeler
  puts 'four wheeler'
end

（示例摘自“Ruby Case语句的工作原理和使用它可以做什么”。）

我更喜欢使用case+then

number = 10

case number
when 1...8 then # ...
when 8...15 then # ...
when 15.. then # ...
end

由于switch-case始终返回单个对象，因此我们可以直接打印其结果：

puts case a
     when 0
        "It's zero"
     when 1
        "It's one"
     end

Ruby支持case表达式。

类匹配：

case e = StandardError.new("testing")
when Exception then puts "error!"
else puts "ok!"
end # => error! 

多值匹配：

case 3
when 1,2,3 then puts "1..3"
when 4,5,6 then puts "4..6"
else puts "?"
end # => 1..3

Regex评估：

case "monkey"
when /mon/ then puts "banana"
else puts "?" 
end # => banana

case语句运算符在其他语言中类似于switch。

这是switch的语法。。。C中的情况：

switch (expression)
​{
    case constant1:
      // statements
      break;
    case constant2:
      // statements
      break;
    .
    .
    .
    default:
      // default statements
}

这是case的语法。。。使用Ruby时：

case expression
  when constant1, constant2 #Each when statement can have multiple candidate values, separated by commas.
     # statements 
     next # is like continue in other languages
  when constant3
     # statements 
     exit # exit is like break in other languages
  .
  .
  .
  else
     # statements
end

例如：

x = 10
case x
when 1,2,3
  puts "1, 2, or 3"
  exit
when 10
  puts "10" # it will stop here and execute that line
  exit # then it'll exit
else
  puts "Some other number"
end

有关更多信息，请参阅案例文档。