# Anyone using rewriterails?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-using-rewriterails/157696>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 14, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-using-rewriterails/157696 "2009-01-14T15:33:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![jzimmek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@jzimmek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzimmek)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-using-rewriterails/157696/1 "2009-01-14T15:33:59Z")

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i just started porting some groovy code to ruby.

in groovy you have the “?.” operator which does not exist in ruby.

projects like “Object.try” and “andand” provide similar functionality,  
but then i found the “rewriterails” project on github:

[http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite\_rails/tree/master](http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails/tree/master)

is anyone using rewrite\_rails and does it work for you ?

regards  
jan

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**Author:** ![jzimmek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@jzimmek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzimmek)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-using-rewriterails/157696/2 "2009-01-14T17:13:38Z")

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jzimmek wrote:

> i just started porting some groovy code to ruby.
> 
> in groovy you have the “?.” operator which does not exist in ruby.
> 
> projects like “Object.try” and “andand” provide similar functionality,  
> but then i found the “rewriterails” project on github:
> 
> [http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite\_rails/tree/master](http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails/tree/master)
> 
> is anyone using rewrite\_rails and does it work for you ?
> 
> regards  
> jan