Say I want a call to be run, and if it fails, it's no big deal; the program can continue without a problem. (I know that this is generally bad practice, but imagine a hypothetical, quick one-off script, and not a large project)
The way I've been taught to do this was:
begin
thing_to_try
rescue
# awkward blank rescue block
end
next_thing
Of course, there are other ways to do this, including using ensure and things like that. But is there a way to get a method call/block to silently fail without a messy blank block?