On 28 Dec 2009, at 18:04, Josh Susser wrote:

> That's reasonably concise, but just keep in mind that all of this is  
> just to make Ruby act more like Perl where empty strings are false-ish  
> values.  I'm sure there are other use cases for #presence, but empty  
> strings that come from form submissions seem like at least 90% of the  
> issue.

Maybe we could eliminate that use case by nullifying blank strings where 
appropriate:

  http://github.com/pixeltrix/nullify_blanks

The empty strings in my databases always bugged me so I wrote the above plugin 
to fix that. It only nullifies a blank string where a column exists, is a text 
column and accepts nulls.


Andrew

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