On Friday, 30 October 2015 10:17:53 UTC, Ian M wrote: > Ahh so it's basically what they called the Elvis operator in Groovy, renamed > as try. I kinda liked it when I did Grails for a bit, and thought it'd be > useful in ruby too. > > Linguistically it reads well as try, but can't help thinking it'll confuse my > brain with Java's try/catch exception handling. Interesting evolution ey. > > > > > ----- Original message ----- > > > From: Tekin Suleyman <[email protected]> > > > > I found this new safe navigation operator for Ruby “interesting”: > https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11537 > > > > > Basically the rails try method baked into Ruby. I’m not sure I like the > syntax, but it looks like it’s coming to a future version of Ruby. > > > > > > > > > On 30 Oct 2015, at 09:55, Ian Moss <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hey, > > > > > I thought it'd be great to know what my fellow Manchester rubyists have > > > found interesting this week... > > > > > For me, I did the standard 'JSON parsing is easy thing' when consuming > > > an API recently. And it is. Until it isn't. I was reminded that there's > > > multiple ways in ruby to parse JSON by this great post: > > > https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/10/4-ways-to-parse-a-json-api-with-ruby.html > > > > > What have you found interesting this week? Could be a blog post. A new > > > or old, gem, that you love. Doesn't have to be uber advanced as there's > > > as many people new to ruby on the list, as there are working with ruby > > > regularly. > > > > > Looking forward to seeing you all at the next meetup, > > > Ian. > > > > > -- > > > Ian Moss > > > http://196destinations.com - capturing your travel dreams & helping you > > > get on the plane! > > > http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // > > > 07790450877 > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
The `try` syntax is Rails, Ruby is introducing a `?` modifier, but because you can already append a `?` in Ruby the syntax has been suggested to prepend to the method you're attempting to call - so like `foo.?baz` -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
