Checking for nil in view in Ruby on Rails

Question

I\'ve been working with Rails for a while now and one thing I find myself constantly doing is checking to see if some attribute or object is nil in my view code before I dis

Answer 1

I personally think that if you are checking nil in your views (and I think since the view is the ultimate presentation layer nil should be checked in that level), you don't want to check it in the controller. (but this will not apply to all the places)

I would recommend you to create a method to check nil (to make it little DRY) and pass your object and check if it is nil or not

something like:

def is_nil(object)
 object.nil? ? '':object 
end 

and add it in the application controller and make it a helper (so that you can use it in both controllers and views)

(helper_method :is_nil - add this line to your application controller)

and now you can pass the object you want to check if it is nil or not.

cheers,

sameera