footing 0.0.8 → 0.0.9

data/lib/extensions/nil_class.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+module Footing
+  module NilClass
+
+    # Similar to ActiveSupport's #try added to NilClass.
+    # Calling [] on nil always returns nil.
+    # It becomes especially helpful when navigating through deeply nested Hashes.
+    #
+    # @example
+    #   dict = {}
+    #   dict[:foo][:bar][:other] # => nil
+    #
+    # @param [Object] key The key to lookup.
+    def [](key)
+      nil
+    end
+
+  end
+end

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
 name: footing
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 0.0.8
+  version: 0.0.9
   prerelease: 
 platform: ruby
 authors:
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ authors:
 autorequire: 
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
-date: 2012-09-02 00:00:00.000000000 Z
+date: 2012-09-03 00:00:00.000000000 Z
 dependencies: []
 description: ! '    Footing is a utillity belt library that employs sane monkey patching.
 
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ files:
 - lib/extensions/array.rb
 - lib/extensions/hash.rb
 - lib/extensions/kernel.rb
+- lib/extensions/nil_class.rb
 - lib/extensions/numeric.rb
 - lib/extensions/object.rb
 - lib/extensions/postgresql_adapter.rb