I like the idea of adding this to the where chain so you could do *Person.where.blank(:name)* and *Person.where.present(:name)*. Joshua, let me know if you want to work together on a PR.
On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:01 PM DHH <da...@loudthinking.com> wrote: > I agree that a double negative is iffy. But I don't like present on the > root. What I do like is: Person.where.present(:name) – so that #present on > where becomes a modifier like #not. I would have to have the same semantics > as Object#present?, though. So that means that both nil and empty would > count. (Also agree that we can't use #having since it already has meaning > in SQL). > > On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 3:30:12 PM UTC-8, Matt Norton wrote: >> >> Instead of: >> Person.where.not(name: nil) >> >> Use: >> Person.present(:name) >> >> Avoids double negative and verbosity. >> >> I'd be happy to contribute if there's interest in this! >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
