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

You can create some custom helper. The following one is just an example.

# application_helper.html.erb
def unless_empty(collection, message = "You have no messages", &block)
  if collection.empty?
    concat(message)
  else
    concat(capture(&block))
  end
end

# view.html.erb
<% unless_empty @messages do %>
  <%# code or partial to dispaly the message %>
<% end %>