Do I understand right condition in Ruby?

Question

There is the following condition in Ruby:

  before_create do
    self.name = login.capitalize if name.blank?
  end

Does it mean that variable self.name will take login field with capitalized text only when field name is not empty?

Answer 1

Right the opposite. self.name will receive the value of login.capitalize when name.blank? is true.

You may read this condition exactly as if it were written in the 'traditional way`, like:

if name.empty? then
  self.name = login.capitalize
end