This is an excellent article but one of its main achievements is to make Ruby work like PHP (swallowing nil errors). The difference between try and Eventually i

This is an excellent article but one of its main achievements is to make Ruby work like PHP (swallowing nil errors). The difference between try and Eventually isn't just that try is on every Object, but that the calling code gets to decide when a nil is unexpected. Personally, I'd rather get errors from nils which I can fix, than swallowed nil values that I'll probably never know about.