Renamed the try method

[andrewthad]

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[kputnam]

Thanks for the quick turnaround! Does this patch also rename present? to is_present?. I'm somewhat reluctant to merge this because the intention of those methods is to be compatible -- they were simply a shim to avoid bringing in a dependency on ActiveSupport for those two methods.

Can you paste the error and stack trace you had? I'd like to see what's involved in either making our try and present? methods behave like ActiveSupport, and I'd also like to consider just bringing ActiveSupport in as a dependency -- this comes up often enough that the cost of avoiding the dependency might be unjustified.

[andrewthad]

I've also had another issue where I had to rename blank? to blankness?. I realized that the problem with try was that my older activesupport (and I'm using activesupport 2.3.18) defines try such that it cannot take a block as an argument. I'm pretty sure that your code does work for anyone on rails 3 or 4. I don't think you should change anything just to support rails 2.

[throttleup]

Any thoughts of using the ruby 2 refinement since there is so much monkey patching going on? I've been burned several times by the fact that Symbol has a call method

[kputnam]

@throttleup That sounds like a great suggestion. Before refinements were even proposed, I had mostly finished the library. If you or anyone else submitted a pull request for this, I would be happy to accept it.

[kputnam]

Closing this since it was solved with refinements in #72