try! bugged with Tempfile#unlink

[mrbrdo]

Tempfile.new(["app-icon", ".png"], Rails.root.join("tmp")).try!(:unlink)
NoMethodError: undefined method `unlink' for #<File:0x00000108ebbf00>
from /x/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0@x/gems/activesupport-4.0.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/try.rb:55:in `public_send'

Works fine without try!.

[dmathieu]

See try!'s documentation

Same as #try, but will raise a NoMethodError exception if the receiving is not nil and does not implemented the tried method.

So what you're seeing is the appropriate behavior.

[mrbrdo]

It does implement it.

Tempfile.new(["app-icon", ".png"], Rails.root.join("tmp")).unlink works.

You misinterpret my issue.

[mrbrdo]

@dmathieu please reopen.

[dmathieu]

😲

[eval]

I guess this is relevant:

Please also note that +try+ is defined on +Object+, therefore it won't work

with instances of classes that do not have +Object+ among their ancestors,

like direct subclasses of +BasicObject+. For example, using +try+ with

+SimpleDelegator+ will delegate +try+ to the target instead of calling it on

delegator itself.

[mrbrdo]

Yes, I thought that might have something to do it. It seems Tempfile is defined as subclass of DelegateClass. Too bad, since it is from stdlib. But I guess there is nothing we can do about it.
Closing.