Question

This is one of those things, that maybe so simple I’ll never find it because everyone else already knows it.

I’ve got objects I have to check for nil in my views so I don’t dereference a nil:

<%= if tax_payment.user; tax_payment.user.name; end %> 

Or I could do this variant:

<%= tax_payment.user ? tax_payment.user.name : '' %> 

So this is ok … for most languages. But I feel like there must be some bit of shiny ruby or railness I’m still missing if this is the best I can do.

Answer 1

What about:

<%= tax_payment.user.name if tax_payment.user %>