Re: [sup-talk] A fix for the joining threads bug with Ferret

[Tero Tilus <tero@tilus.net>]

Excerpts from Gregor Hoffleit's message:
> With my limited Ruby knowledge, my quick and dirty fix was:
> 
>     if entry[:refs]!="" then
>        d[:refs]=entry[:refs]
>     else
>        d[:refs]=(m.refs + m.replytos).uniq.join(" ")
>     end
> 
> Is this what the above code is about?

I would expect it to be something alike.  Rails has Object#empty?
which is true (I think) for nil, false, empty list and empty string.
I'd go with

  entry[:refs].to_s != ""

to handle nil as "no refs" too.

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