Ruby's try()

I came to know about Ruby's try() method today, liked, the overall purpose of this method and so, sharing a brief note about how we can use this method while writing codes. 

Many a times, we have to write conditions for checking for nil values/objects. try() can help us to write clean codes whereby we don't have explicitly do testing for nil value. 

Have a look at the small example below 

Without try():

puts @student.school.name if @student.school

With try():

puts @student.school.try(:name)

Read this http://apidock.com/rails/Object/try link, to know about try() method more in details.