Never forget hashes or hash like objects such as session can have nil and therefore will break method chains

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Last Updated: 2024-10-12

I had the following code:

tracking_info: session[:tracking_info].symbolize_keys

Sometimes the tracking_info is available in the session... but sometimes not. The code blew up in such cases, since symbolize_keys is not defined on nil.

Here's the fix:

tracking_info: session[:tracking_info]&.symbolize_keys