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

For code golfers:

if my_string=~/./
  p 'non-empty string'
else
  p 'nil or empty string'
end

Or if you're not a golfer (requires ruby 2.3 or later):

if my_string&.size&.positive?
  # nonzero? also works
  p 'non-empty string'
else
  p 'nil or empty string'
end