From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2012-07-04T08:59:42+09:00
Subject: Re: if x.condition, set x to y


On Jul 3, 2012, at 16:43 , wutang paul wrote:

> Hi, big time newbie here.

Welcome

>    if actor_data['biography'].empty?
>      actor_data['biography'] = "Biography not available"
>    end
> 
> Is there a shorter/better way to do this?

No. It's great.

You might want to look into using symbols for hash keys at some point... but it's not crucial.