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

nil? can be omitted in boolean contexts. Generally, you can use this to replicate the C# code:

return my_string.nil? || my_string.empty?