Remove use of ActiveSupport try

[dduugg]

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This was used in only a handful of places, where safe navigation and typechecking are generally better approaches (there are some suboptimal APIs that make this less clean in some cases, however).

[dduugg]

This seems to have previously depended on the require within try itself.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Makes sense, thanks again @dduugg!