Class: Object

Inherits:

BasicObject

Defined in:

lib/www/delicious.rb

Instance Method Summary

• #blank? ⇒ Boolean

  An object is blank if it’s false, empty, or a whitespace string.

Instance Method Details

#blank? ⇒ Boolean

An object is blank if it’s false, empty, or a whitespace string. For example, “”, “ ”, nil, [], and {} are blank.

This simplifies

if !address.nil? && !address.empty?

to

if !address.blank?

Object#blank? comes from the GEM ActiveSupport 2.1.

Returns:

• (Boolean)

# File 'lib/www/delicious.rb', line 938

def blank? 
  respond_to?(:empty?) ? empty? : !self
end