Well, it’s actually two operators. Sue me. The 2.3.0 release of Ruby included the safe navigation operator, &.. It does the same thing as try! in Rails. You can chain method calls together and bail early if you hit a nil. In Ruby some things you don’t normally think of as method calls are in fact just that. For example, operators like !=.

Read more: http://aaronlasseigne.com/2016/01/04/rubys-new-safe-navigation-not-equal-operator/