Safe navigation equivalent to Rails try for hashes

Question

In Rails, you can do hash.try(:[], :key) which helps if hash is potentially nil. Is there an equivalent version for using the new Ruby 2.3

Answer 1

While hash&.[](:key) is elegant to the trained rubyist, I'd just use hash && hash[:key] as it reads better and more intuitively for the programmer coming after me, who may not be as familiar with the intricacies of ruby. Some extra characters in the codebase can sometimes save a whole lot of googling for someone else.

(Given the context you want to use this in is in a conditional statement, of course.)