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08/26/2025

06:39 AM Ruby Feature #21545: #try_dig, a dig that returns early if it cannot dig deeper

herwin (Herwin W) wrote in #note-7:
> Maybe I'm reading too much into the examples, but this looks to me like something where pattern matching would be more suitable:
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This is a beautiful solution to the API problem. I see how thi... cb341 (Daniel Bengl)

06:37 AM Ruby Feature #21545: #try_dig, a dig that returns early if it cannot dig deeper

Dan0042 (Daniel DeLorme) wrote in #note-6:
> I have never seen an API that can return either a string `"ok"` or a hash `{ code: 200 }`
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Maybe the API status example is not the best suited one for `try_dig`. It has been m... cb341 (Daniel Bengl)

06:20 AM Ruby Feature #21545: #try_dig, a dig that returns early if it cannot dig deeper

matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote in #note-5:
> How about adding keyword argument, e.g. `exception: true` to behave `try_dig`.
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Why would you add the option? The thought behind `try_dig` is that there is no exception when you dig to... cb341 (Daniel Bengl)

06:18 AM Ruby Feature #21545: #try_dig, a dig that returns early if it cannot dig deeper

matheusrich (Matheus Richard) wrote in #note-4:
> Just want to point out that Ruby itself doesn't have any concept of `try`. This *might* be best as a proposal for Active Support.
It does make more sense to have this part of Active S... cb341 (Daniel Bengl)

08/15/2025

09:36 AM Ruby Feature #21545 (Open): #try_dig, a dig that returns early if it cannot dig deeper

Ruby offers `dig` for traversing nested hashes and arrays. It is strict and will raise if an intermediary object does not support `dig`. In many cases we only want to attempt the lookup and return `nil` if it cannot be followed, without ... cb341 (Daniel Bengl)