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Getting access to Object#try

I am trying to obtain access to Object#try in ruby.

I thought that just including activesupport would do the trick, but it doesn't.

irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'active_support'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> o = Object.new
=> #<Object:0x15d45d9>
irb(main):004:0> o.respond_to? :try
=> false
irb(main):005:0>

How do I get access to Object#try?

Solution

  • To get try all you need to do is require "active_support/core_ext/object/try". The source is here and because the NilClass is opened and try is defined to return nil, you get the chaining ability.