From: ssmoot@... Date: 2006-03-03T14:58:37+09:00 Subject: Re: cleaner Ruby in a rails view I think the "and-call" operator discussed recently would be a very very very nice addition, especially since in Rails Views (or any presentation layer on most any framework in most languages) has the ever-so-common "obj ? obj.value : nil" mini-pattern. Of course it doesn't really apply in this specific case since there's an empty array available, but: item.cart_item_option_values &? each do { |ov| blah } Would be nice.