Lint-SafeNavigationChain.md

Pattern: Unsafe method navigation chain

Issue: -

Description

The safe navigation operator returns nil if the receiver is nil. If you chain an ordinary method call after a safe navigation operator, it raises NoMethodError.

Examples

# bad

x&.foo.bar
x&.foo + bar
x&.foo[bar]

# good

x&.foo&.bar
x&.foo || bar

Default configuration

Attribute	Value
Whitelist	present?, blank?, presence, try

Further Reading

• RuboCop - Lint/SafeNavigationChain