From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-09-12T06:58:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Combine @item.foo.nil? || @item.foo.empty? ?

On 9/9/06, Marshall T. Vandegrift <llasram@gmail.com> wrote:
>     class NilClass
>       def empty?; true; end
>     end

Because nil isn't empty.

It isn't a container. It's not an array, hash, or string.

Rails has a #blank? method -- which I've used this weekend -- but
nil.empty? is a false question.

-austin
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