introduce blank? and present? methods to make checking for blank values easier

[bigsolom]

Introduce blank? and present? methods as an Object extension to make checking for blank values easier

# instead of
if str && str != ''
# use
if str.present?

[halfbyte]

Useful change, @bigsolom, thanks. Would love to get into a dialog with you lot why you're maintaining your own fork instead of trying to feed the changes back here.

[bigsolom]

Hey @halfbyte sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation. Yes sure I would love to discuss that, we can continue on Linkedin if that's fine for you or use other medium that you prefer?