Best Practice: Try vs Rescue

Question

What is a best practice? To use try or use rescue?

user.try(:email)

VS

user.email rescue nil
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Answer 1

Nothing is Something is an excellent talk by Sandi Metz that helps understand why @AdamByrtek is spot on, and why we should all be marking the failed cases in a smarter, more object-oriented way that x ? y : nil