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

One way is to do something like:

<%= render(:partial => @messages) || render('no_messages') %>

Edit:

If I remember correctly this was made possible by this commit:

http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/a8ece12fe2ac7838407954453e0d31af6186a5db