Class: Object
- Inherits:
- BasicObject
- Defined in:
- lib/core_extensions.rb
Instance Method Summary collapse
-
#blank? ⇒ Boolean
An object is blank if it’s nil, empty, or a whitespace string.
Instance Method Details
#blank? ⇒ Boolean
An object is blank if it’s nil, empty, or a whitespace string. For example, “”, “ ”, ‘0000’, nil, [], 0, 0.0 and {} are blank.
This simplifies
if !address.nil? && !address.empty?
to
if !address.blank?
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# File 'lib/core_extensions.rb', line 9 def blank? if respond_to?(:empty?) && respond_to?(:strip) empty? or strip.empty? or gsub('0', '').empty? elsif respond_to?(:empty?) empty? elsif respond_to?(:zero?) zero? else !self end end |