From ruby 2 3 0 onward you can combine the safe navigation operator with numeric nonzero.
Ruby if nil then.
Array 1 dog nil array.
There are plenty of options available.
It s also a falsy value meaning that it behaves like false when used in a conditional statement.
Else code end if expressions are used for conditional execution.
The values false and nil are false and everything else are true.
When the ruby interpreter boots up it initializes falseclass trueclass and nilclass.
Then again i also consider the not really readable either.
Nil granted not very readable.
Notice ruby uses elsif not else if nor elif.
This will return the first element of responses or nil then because conditional statements treat nil as false we can write.
If conditional then code.
To be honest i don t think that these examples are really that great.
Response responses to a first if response do something happy path else do something else end.
How to check in ruby that some variable in our case it s request is not an instance of nil.
These types were fixnum float falseclass trueclass string and regex.
Let s evaluate their usefulness and potential problems that they bring to the table.
In ruby on rails what s the difference actually.
They are singleton instances of falseclass and trueclass respectively.
In non legal ruby consider this.
I used these nil check conditions on each of the types to see if there was a difference between them performance wise.
Count not nil or.
First you need to know that false and true variables work exactly the same way as nil does.
I picked various ruby types to test in case the results changed based on the type.
Array 1 dog nil array.
Somebody may 26 11 at 19 12 if request nil.
If the number was 0.
But if request suffices in ruby nil and false are the only values that will fail an if and you can t get false here to confuse the issue.