try doesn't work properly in rails 3.1.1

[romanoff]

In my application I have logic that calls try on model. Like Name.try(:no_slug). It worked in rails 3.1.0, but in rails 3.1.1 I get exception.

[jeremy]

This was actually a bug in Rails 3.1.0. Object#try just swallows nil values, it isn't intended to swallow missing methods, too. This bug was a regression and was fixed in 3.1.1 release.

[guilleiguaran]

The right code:

Name.no_slug if Name.respond_to?(:no_slug)

[29decibel]

to be frankly , i really love the try "feature" before.. :-)

[jeremy]

@29decibel yes, it was convenient also! Different method though.

[betelgeuse]

@jeremy why isn't the change documented in the ChangeLog: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/10/7/ann-rails-3-1-1 ?

[vijaydev]

@BetelGuese it might have been missed. The post contains a GitHub link for the exhaustive list of changes :)

[betelgeuse]

@vijaydev Considering that this can make previously running code start throwing an exception I would deem it important enough to be part of the ChangeLog. Can it be added still?