Nothingness and the Truth

Learn about truthiness, falsiness, and nothingness.

Now is a good time to explore the concepts of nothingness and truth in Ruby. First, let’s also do a quick recap to build some context.

The nil object

We’ve briefly mentioned that in Ruby, there’s an object that represents nothing, nil.

Remember how we can receive a value associated with a key from a hash?

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