Rails: An elegant way to display a message when there are no elements in database

Question

I realized that I\'m writing a lot of code similar to this one:

<% unless @messages.blank? %>
  <% @messages.each do |message|  %>
    <%# cod         


        

Answer 1

I'm surprised my favorite answer isn't up here. There is an answer thats close, but I don't like bare text and using content_for is klunky. Try this one on for size:

  <%= render(@user.recipes) || content_tag("p") do %>
    This user hasn't added any recipes yet!
  <% end %>