Rails - Oct 2006 - Is there a better way of doing this? checking for params

I always do this when checking to see if a parameter exists and that it 
is not blank:

if params[:name] and !params[:name].empty?
...
end

Is there a better way? a simpler way.

Thanks in advance
Chris

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Chris Richards wrote:
> I always do this when checking to see if a parameter exists and that it
> is not blank:
>
> if params[:name] and !params[:name].empty?
> ...
> end
>
> Is there a better way? a simpler way.
Rails defines an method ''blank?'' that will work for any
object,
including nil. It returns true when it''s called on a nil object, or an
empty string, hash or array. So you can use

if !params[:name].blank?

Chris


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