Get rid of extraneous conditionals

ruby_try_example.rb

# If @user does not exist or is nil...
  @user.name
# => throws an exception, "undefined method 'name' for NilClass"

# The easy fix is to solve with a conditional:
  @user.name if @user

# The more fun (and probably dirtier) way is to use the #try method:
  @user.try(:name)

# This accomplishes the same thing as using the conditional, but it's shorter and reads better.
# Warning: Using #try is consistently a fraction of a second slower than using the conditional. 

# user1 = User.create(name: 'Mark')
# user2 = nil

  Benchmark.bm do |x|
    x.report { user1.name if user1 }  
    x.report { user1.try(:name) }  
    x.report { user2.name if user2 }  
    x.report { user2.try(:name) }  
  end  
       user     system      total        real
   0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000020)
   0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000067)
   0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000002)
   0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000003)
=> [#<Benchmark::Tms:0x000000045cc7c8
  @cstime=0.0,
  @cutime=0.0,
  @label="",
  @real=2.0046e-05,
  @stime=0.0,
  @total=0.0,
  @utime=0.0>,
 #<Benchmark::Tms:0x000000045ca4f0
  @cstime=0.0,
  @cutime=0.0,
  @label="",
  @real=6.7324e-05,
  @stime=0.0,
  @total=0.0,
  @utime=0.0>,
 #<Benchmark::Tms:0x000000045c8e70
  @cstime=0.0,
  @cutime=0.0,
  @label="",
  @real=1.99e-06,
  @stime=0.0,
  @total=0.0,
  @utime=0.0>,
 #<Benchmark::Tms:0x000000045c2368
  @cstime=0.0,
  @cutime=0.0,
  @label="",
  @real=3.396e-06,
  @stime=0.0,
  @total=0.0,
  @utime=0.0>]