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Safe Navigation on nil gotcha

tldr; Beware, both ActiveSupport's try and Ruby's safe navigation operator &. will always return nil when operating on a nil.

For example, I would have expected either to return a response like so:

> nil.try(:to_s) => ""
> nil&.to_s => ""

However this is not the case:

> nil.try(:to_s) => nil
> nil&.to_s => nil
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