7 files changed, 30 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md b/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
index e0d154271f..3cd2235aec 100644
--- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+*   Added instance_eval version to Object#try, so you can do this:
+
+      person.try { name.first }
+    
+    instead of:
+      
+      person.try { |person| person.name.first }
+
+    *DHH*
+
 *   Fix the `ActiveSupport::Duration#instance_of?` method to return the right
     value with the class itself since it was previously delegated to the
     internal value.
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/try.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/try.rb
index 48190e1e66..31919474ed 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/try.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/try.rb
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ class Object
   #     ...
   #   end
   #
+  # You can also call try with a block without accepting an argument, and the block
+  # will be instance_eval'ed instead:
+  #
+  #   @person.try { upcase.truncate(50) }
+  #
   # Please also note that +try+ is defined on +Object+, therefore it won't work
   # with instances of classes that do not have +Object+ among their ancestors,
   # like direct subclasses of +BasicObject+. For example, using +try+ with
@@ -40,7 +45,11 @@ class Object
   # delegator itself.
   def try(*a, &b)
     if a.empty? && block_given?
-      yield self
+      if b.arity.zero?
+        instance_eval(&b)
+      else
+        yield self
+      end
     else
       public_send(*a, &b) if respond_to?(a.first)
     end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/gem_version.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/gem_version.rb
index 83a3bf7a5d..0a2b4c1618 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/gem_version.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/gem_version.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 module ActiveSupport
-  # Returns the version of the currently loaded ActiveSupport as a <tt>Gem::Version</tt>
+  # Returns the version of the currently loaded Active Support as a <tt>Gem::Version</tt>
   def self.gem_version
     Gem::Version.new VERSION::STRING
   end
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
     MAJOR = 4
     MINOR = 2
     TINY  = 0
-    PRE   = "alpha"
+    PRE   = "beta1"
 
     STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY, PRE].compact.join(".")
   end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb
index ee62523824..49dfee96ec 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb
@@ -276,8 +276,8 @@ module ActiveSupport
       if @utc_offset
         @utc_offset
       else
-        @current_period ||= tzinfo.try(:current_period)
-        @current_period.try(:utc_offset)
+        @current_period ||= tzinfo.current_period if tzinfo
+        @current_period.utc_offset if @current_period
       end
     end
 
diff --git a/activesupport/test/caching_test.rb b/activesupport/test/caching_test.rb
index 8287e62f4c..5945605f7b 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/caching_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/caching_test.rb
@@ -939,8 +939,8 @@ class MemCacheStoreTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
 
   def test_read_should_return_a_different_object_id_each_time_it_is_called
     @cache.write('foo', 'bar')
-    assert_not_equal @cache.read('foo').object_id, @cache.read('foo').object_id
     value = @cache.read('foo')
+    assert_not_equal value.object_id, @cache.read('foo').object_id
     value << 'bingo'
     assert_not_equal value, @cache.read('foo')
   end
diff --git a/activesupport/test/core_ext/object/try_test.rb b/activesupport/test/core_ext/object/try_test.rb
index 8b754ced53..225c20fa36 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/core_ext/object/try_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/core_ext/object/try_test.rb
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ class ObjectTryTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     assert_equal false, ran
   end
 
+  def test_try_with_instance_eval_block
+    assert_equal @string.reverse, @string.try { reverse }
+  end
+
   def test_try_with_private_method_bang
     klass = Class.new do
       private
diff --git a/activesupport/test/transliterate_test.rb b/activesupport/test/transliterate_test.rb
index e0f85f4e7c..6833ae68a7 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/transliterate_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/transliterate_test.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class TransliterateTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
   end
 
   def test_transliterate_should_approximate_ascii
-    # create string with range of Unicode"s western characters with
+    # create string with range of Unicode's western characters with
     # diacritics, excluding the division and multiplication signs which for
     # some reason or other are floating in the middle of all the letters.
     string = (0xC0..0x17E).to_a.reject {|c| [0xD7, 0xF7].include?(c)}.pack("U*")