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How to check if there are no environment variables in Ruby
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Overview
We can check if there are no environment variables using the empty? property of the ENV class. It returns true if the environment variables are available, otherwise, it returns a false.
Syntax
ENV.empty?
Return values
The value returned is a Boolean. It returns true if there are environment variables available, otherwise, it returns `false.
Code example
# create some environment variables ENV["G"] = "Google" ENV["N"] = "Netflix" ENV["A"] = "Apple" ENV["A"] = "Amazon" ENV["M"] = "Meta" ENV["FOO"] = "" # check if empty puts ENV.empty? # false # clear environment variables ENV.clear # check if empty puts ENV.empty? # true
Checking if there are environment variables in Ruby
Code explanation
- Lines 2 to 7: We create some environment variables.
- Line 10: We check if there are environment variables present and print the result.
- Line 13: We clear all environment variables.
- Line 16: We recheck if the environment variables exist and print the result to the console.
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