From: Roger Pack Date: 2011-10-07T07:55:53+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:40001] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5372][Open] Promote blank? to a core protocol > Facets (and ActiveSupport) define a #blank? protocol which allows for the above to be replaced with: > > �if thing.blank? I use this all the time if thing.present? # .. end enthusiastic +1 :) -roger-