Is There a Better Way of Checking Nil or Length == 0 of a String in Ruby?

Question

Is there a better way than the following to check to see if a string is nil OR has a length of 0 in Ruby?

if !my_str         


        

Answer 1

An alternative to jcoby's proposal would be:

class NilClass
  def nil_or_empty?
    true
  end
end

class String
  def nil_or_empty?
    empty?
  end
end