On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 9:32:21 AM UTC, Marco Antonio Almeida wrote: > > If you're using Rails, another approach is to use try ( > http://apidock.com/rails/Object/try). > > def rqstate > quote_request.try(:status) || "unsubmitted" > end > > #try is very nice in this case, but avoid overdoing it. I have faced many > codebases with tons of try methods chained and then you lose code > readability. > >> >> A gotcha is that if quote_request is non nil, but doesn't actually have a method called status then try will ignore the NoMethodError and just return nil ( try! on the other hand will raise in this case). Prior to rails 4, try behaved like try!
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