ruby try sugar

try is a little snippet for Ruby that extends the Object class so that instead of having to do:

@person ? @person.name : nil

you can instead just do:

@person.try(:name)

Just add the following to your Object class:

class Object
  ##
  #   @person ? @person.name : nil
  # vs
  #   @person.try(:name)
  def try(method)
    send method if respond_to? method
  end
end