Returns nil if the instance was nil and nonzero.
Ruby check nil or empty string.
That means that an empty string is not nil and an empty array is not nil.
Is a string class method in ruby which is used to check whether the string length is zero or not.
Method is analogous to the following.
Rails adds the method blank.
This is useful in case empty.
You can think of nil as the most general way of representing absence in ruby.
Well nil is a special ruby object used to represent an empty or default value.
For example and empty array is one that is not nil it is an array right and has no elements.
If the number was 0.
Method inside the string class.
To the object class.
From ruby 2 3 0 onward you can combine the safe navigation operator with numeric nonzero.
Anything can potentially be nil and every object can answer to the nil method.
An object is blank if it s false empty or a whitespace string.
Everything can be nil but only collections can be empty.
Is a method some objects respond to.
Returned nil or a string or a number something different than true or false.
Neither is something that is false nil.
Class string def present.
Return length 0 end so you can safely use.
For example nil and are blank.
That way the returned value is always converted to a boolean value.
It s also a falsy value meaning that it behaves like false when used in a conditional statement.
An empty string is one that is not nil it is a string right and has no bytes nothing.
The source of the empty.
Will only return true if the object itself is nil.
Now let s cover a much more specific way of representing a lack of data and that is emptiness.