From: janfri26@...
Date: 2018-04-11T14:29:29+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:86510] [Ruby trunk Feature#14672] Introdice a	Date.safe_parse method

Issue #14672 has been updated by janfri (Jan Friedrich).


Why not use a one line rescue?
~~~ ruby
Date.parse(some_value) rescue Date.new(2018,1,1)
~~~
It shows IMHO the intention very clear.

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Feature #14672: Introdice a Date.safe_parse method
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14672#change-71452

* Author: coorasse (Alessandro Rodi)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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This feature request is about a Date.safe_parse method.
The method should call the original Date.parse method but avoid raising an exception and returning a fallback value instead.
An implementation in ActiveSupport has been proposed here: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/32503/files.
This would avoid the necessity to rescue possible Exceptions everytime.

See:

```ruby
Date.safe_parse(nil) 
=> # nil

Date.safe_parse("") 
=> # nil

fallback = Date.new(2018,1,1)
Date.safe_parse(nil, fallback)
=> # #<Date: 2018-01-01>
```



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