Ruby Shenanigans

[wwalker (Walker)]

I have this pipeline that's a bit convoluted and wanted to know if this will work. The intent is, if old.new_duration exists and, for example, has a value of 10, instead of it being replaced, it gets added to the value of duration.epoch with the sum of those two values going back into the field old.new_duration.

  if [old][new_duration] {
    if [old][state] == "new" {
      ruby {
        code => 'event.set("[old][new_duration]", event.get("[old][new_duration").to_i + event.get("[duration][epoch]").to_i)'
      }
    } else {
      mutate {
        add_field => {
          "state_new_duration" => "%{[old][new_duration]}"
        }
      }
    }
  }

I can see this happening in one of two ways, the way I'm hoping:
Field values before ruby
old.new_duration: 10
duration.epoch: 5
Ruby code executed, field values after ruby
old.new_duration: 15

or, the event.set command immediately creates a new field, overwriting any existing before executing the math op:
Field values before ruby
old.new_duration: 10
duration.epoch: 5
Ruby code executed, field values after ruby
old.new_duration: 5