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ActiveSupport has a presence method

If you use ActiveSupport you have access to the method #presence that returns nil if the object is #blank?

require "active_support"

# blank? on String is a regex for /[:space:]*/
"\n\t \n\r".presence
=> nil

"     abc   ".presence
=> "     abc   "
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