From: Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@...>
Date: 2008-12-17T05:17:23+09:00
Subject: Ruby 1.8.6 - normal behavior ?

I don't know enough to really test this but I came across a funny 
behavior - example code requires Net::LDAP.

#
# Prepare and start loop iterating through data in a Windows AD.
# 'entry' is the name of iterator.

#Apparently, the simple fact of checking this keeps Ruby from raising
#a NoMethodError when those entries don't exist
puts "" if entry[:lastlogon].nil?
puts "" if entry[:operatingsystemservicepack].nil?
puts "" if entry[:operatingsystem].nil?

By typing those lines, I get no related output, but I also avoid 
crashes. It's pretty neat but it feels a little hackish. Is this 
normal/expected behavior?

--Aldric