title: Having a Ruby block/command silently fail without a blank 'rescue' block
body: <p>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)</p>
  
  <p>The way I've been taught to do this was:</p>
  
  <pre><code>begin
    thing_to_try
  rescue
    # awkward blank rescue block
  end
  next_thing
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Of course, there are other ways to do this, including using <code>ensure</code> and things like that.  But is there a way to get a method call/block to silently fail without a messy blank block?</p>