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Subject: Re: cleaner Ruby in a rails view
From: James Byrne <byrnejb@ r - n c
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:25:36 +0900
References: 182207 182210 182211 182245 182250
In-reply-to: 182250

Charlie Bowman wrote:
> As a side thought. Why doesn't the nil class have an each method that
> returns nothing.  It seems that this problem comes up quite often.
> 

irb(main):001:0> a = nil
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> a.to_a
=> []
irb(main):003:0> a.to_a.each {|n| puts "The index is: #{n.index}"}
=> []
irb(main):004:0>


Does this suit?

Regards,
Jim

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