diff --git a/packages/react-native/scripts/cocoapods/utils.rb b/packages/react-native/scripts/cocoapods/utils.rb
index 64fe78b87ed..706e6f344ba 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/scripts/cocoapods/utils.rb
+++ b/packages/react-native/scripts/cocoapods/utils.rb
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ class ReactNativePodsUtils
             node_binary = `type -a node`.split("\n").map { |path|
                 path.gsub!("node is ", "")
             }.select { |b|
-                return !b.start_with?("/var")
+                !b.start_with?("/var")
             }
 
             node_binary = node_binary[0]