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Complex call chain

Reports chained calls that can be simplified with the safe navigation operator (&.). A group of chained calls is a common pattern to check for nil in each call component.

Example:

# Bad practice if user && user.profile && user.profile.thumbnails end

A quick-fix is available to simplify the expression with &.. After the quick-fix is applied, the result looks like this:

# Good practice if user&.profile&.thumbnails end

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ConvertOneChainedExprToSafeNavigation
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Ruby | Code style issues

Inspection ID: ConvertOneChainedExprToSafeNavigation

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ConvertOneChainedExprToSafeNavigation

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

Qodana for Ruby 2025.2, RubyMine 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025