Thanks Hassan, the code changed you mentioned above worked! I
appreciate your taking the time to help me,
Barney
On Jul 28, 7:25 pm, Hassan Schroeder <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Barney <[email protected]> wrote:
> > How else would I check that hash?
>
> Besides the previously mentioned debugger, you can add logging
> statements to your code to provide more information.
>
> > But, could you tell me what form (type, value) is the return from
> > that empty text box?
>
> It's the web -- all request parameters are strings; if no value was set
> in the client then it's an empty string.
>
> But based on the code above --
> ------
> @skill_search2 = String.new # blech - extraneous
> @skill_search2=:skill2.to_s # ditto, also meaningless :-)
>
> if @skill_search2.empty?
> ------
> what you want is just
>
> if params['skill2'].empty?
>
> HTH,
> --
> Hassan Schroeder ------------------------
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