C2 Wiki discusses how nil.to_s.empty? is available in rails and nil.blank? is provided for Ruby On Rails,
Ruby
[source:ruby]
nil.to_s.empty?
>> true
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Rails
[source:ruby]
nil.blank?
>> true
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Java
[source:Java]
String s = null;
return s == null;
>> true
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Let’s say we want to check that s is non-blank string. The danger is that s could be null. We will use random to seed s (Or just think of [...]

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Congrats to Dave, Tim and the teams at Ponoko and PlanHQ
Silicon Welly represent !

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We have a few events this week. John and Peter will at [...]