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~~5013~~ ~~Clean try syntax~~ was updated in Ruby on Rails

Amos King commented at 5:46 AM
irb(main):003:0> require 'json'
=> true irb(main):005:0> Try = Class.new(BasicObject) { def method_missing(*) nil; end }
=> Try irb(main):006:0> Try.new.to_json
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~~5013~~ ~~Clean try syntax~~ was updated in Ruby on Rails

Amos King commented at 4:03 PM
What if the implementation used BasicObject if the implementation is Ruby 1.9? I'm not in a place where I can test that right now.
Amos King commented at 3:00 PM
Why not support both syntaxes for a little while, and see where the community goes with it. Then we can deprecate one, or maybe decide to keep both?
Amos King commented at 1:06 PM
This patch supports both syntaxes.
- Tag changed from active_support, core_ext, patch, rails3 to active_support, core_ext, documentation, patch, rails3
by Amos King at 5:44 AM
I also updated the documentation in the same patch.
- Tag changed from active_support, core_ext, rails3 to active_support, core_ext, patch, rails3
by Amos King at 5:42 AM
here is a patch, and it keeps backwards compatibility.

Amos King created the ticket at 5:35 AM

The syntax for try is really ugly with array/hash access. ie. list.try(:[],4)

I would really like to see try return a proxy object when the original object is a...

Amos King commented at 3:41 AM
I can't reproduce this issue with the latest. Can I get an example so I can tackle this.

Amos King commented at 2:04 AM
I think it should stay as a patch. A framework should optimize because you don't know the end user's use case all the time, and if they have a lot of partals th...

Amos King commented at 3:18 PM
Rails should validate off of the attribute and save from the attribute. I'm not suggesting to change the save. The save currently works off of the attributes. I...