Why does mechanize raise NoMethodError on my page2.links.each method chain?

Question

Error

mySpiderScript.rb:119:in ` block (3 levels) in <main>': undefined method `links' for #<Mechanize::Image:0x120a7e38> (NoMethodError)   

Code

agent2 = Mechanize.new
page2 = agent2.get('http://www.mywebsite.net')
  page2.links.each do |link2|     #line 119
    name = link2.href.to_s   

How do I fix this so that the script keeps running?

Update

Here is what page2.body returns.

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Answer 1

From the comments:

[T]he body is not a valid mechanize object. How to skip it?

There are lot of ways to validate your object before trying to invoke a method on it. One way is to use the poorly-documented safe navigation operator (&.) introduced in Ruby 2.3.0. For example, using your existing code:

page2&.links&.each do |link2|

This will return nil if the object in page2 doesn't respond to #links, or the result of page2.links doesn't respond to #each. Program flow will then continue after the #each block formed by your page2&.links&.each method chain.