Well nil is a special ruby object used to represent an empty or default value.
Ruby check nil or empty string.
Class string def present.
Everything can be nil but only collections can be empty.
For example and empty array is one that is not nil it is an array right and has no elements.
Method inside the string class.
An empty string is one that is not nil it is a string right and has no bytes nothing.
From ruby 2 3 0 onward you can combine the safe navigation operator with numeric nonzero.
That means that an empty string is not nil and an empty array is not nil.
This is useful in case empty.
Returned nil or a string or a number something different than true or false.
Method is analogous to the following.
For example nil and are blank.
Any string length 0 anyway using that code inside an else if is a bit verbose i would encourage you to define the present.
Rails adds the method blank.
You need to check the documentation for each case.
Is a string class method in ruby which is used to check whether the string length is zero or not.
The source of the empty.
Return length 0 end so you can safely use.
You can think of nil as the most general way of representing absence in ruby.
Neither is something that is false nil.
If the number was 0.
That way the returned value is always converted to a boolean value.
To the object class.
Will only return true if the object itself is nil.
Returns nil if the instance was nil and nonzero.
An object is blank if it s false empty or a whitespace string.
Now let s cover a much more specific way of representing a lack of data and that is emptiness.
True true false false nil false 0 true abc true.