blank?

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb, line 153
  def blank?
    # The regexp that matches blank strings is expensive. For the case of empty
    # strings we can speed up this method (~3.5x) with an empty? call. The
    # penalty for the rest of strings is marginal.
    empty? ||
      begin
        BLANK_RE.match?(self)
      rescue Encoding::CompatibilityError
        ENCODED_BLANKS[self.encoding].match?(self)
      end
  end