Ruby 2 3 introduces the.
Ruby nil check.
It s primarily used for hashes.
September 11 2010 4 minute read tags.
Ruby empty means that the length object you are trying to evaluate 0.
To check for not nil.
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You re just calling methods on an object or passing messages to it for you smalltalkers out there and that s it.
Using the method chain nil.
For many beginning rubyists especially those having experience in other programming languages such as java or c checking whether variable is nil may seem a little bit confusing.
This works since ruby 1 9 if i recall.
You also learned that nil false are the only two things in ruby that are falsy.
Let s evaluate their usefulness and potential problems that they bring to the table.
The first example may also return false if.
The try method doesn t check if the receiver responds to the given method.
Updated by nobu nobuyoshi nakada over 3 years ago related to feature 12075.
For more info on nil and nilclass check out this sweet ruby guides article empty.
Everything else is truthy.
In ruby on rails what s the difference actually.
You learned that nil is just a ruby object that represents nothing.
It either returns the address or nil if some value along the chain is nil.
Since nil in ruby is just an object like virtually anything else this means that handling it is not a special case.
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The ruby way would be to not get into a state where you have a mixture of nils and empty strings.
And even those speaking ruby quite fluently don t usually know the tiny little details.
In the previous section we ve covered the nil construct in ruby.
Operator which will make dealing with nils easier.
There are plenty of options available.
