Today we were faced with an interesting question in #ruby-lang:

<Judofyr> is there a way to find out if it’s safe to call “super”? <Judofyr&> aka. it’s defined on the superclass

After some ugly solutions (like self.class.ancestors.any? and super rescue nil) apeiros came up with a nicer one:

<apeiros_> super if defined? super

Example:

class Test
  def foo
    1
  end
end

class Test2 < Test
  def foo; super if defined? super; end
  def bar; super if defined? super; end
end

t = Test2.new
t.foo # => 1
t.bar # => nil