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Feature #14672

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Introduce a Date.safe_parse method

Added by coorasse (Alessandro Rodi) over 6 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:86488]

Description

This feature request is about a Date.safe_parse method.
The method should call the original Date.parse method but avoid raising an exception and returning a fallback value instead.
An implementation in ActiveSupport has been proposed here: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/32503/files.
This would avoid the necessity to rescue possible Exceptions everytime.

See:

Date.safe_parse(nil) 
=> # nil

Date.safe_parse("") 
=> # nil

fallback = Date.new(2018,1,1)
Date.safe_parse(nil, fallback)
=> # #<Date: 2018-01-01>
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