Question

I think I would see my code better if I would ask myself object.not_nil? vs !object.nil?. So my question: Is there really no convenience method for !nil? to sugar things up? Is it in front of my eyes and I cannot see it or am I just missing an important point?

Answer 1

How about this?

not object.nil?

But the easier thing to do would be to check for the “truthiness” of by testing the variable itself. Since nil is implicitly false you can just check object.