Thanks for the reply. > Below I am assuming your arg is a field name which is > something passed by your own code.
Exactly. arg is simply the name of a field whose value I want to check. This field is hard-coded into my program. I don't want to execute any user generated input, rather just check to see if the user has entered anything. I am assuming that in this case I am on the safe side using eval. Is that correct? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.