.blank? requires rails

[clarkewd]

It seems that using .blank? On line 26 causes an error unless using this inside a rails app:

NoMethodError: undefined method `blank?' for "dedicated.server.com":String
from ~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p547/gems/whm_xml-0.3.2/lib/parameters.rb:26:in `block in requires!'

Perhaps don't use .blank? is the best option. Also I saw someone use a monkeypatch to fix something similar but it's probably not good practice:

unless Object.new.respond_to? :blank?
    class Object
        def blank?
            respond_to?(:empty?) ? empty? : !self
        end
    end
end

[ivanoats]

cool, thanks for bringing that up. Which option here do you like best?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17397316/ruby-blank-without-rails

[clarkewd]

I'm just good enough at ruby to understand what's going on but not really qualified to make a call on the best fix :)