simplest way to check for just spaces in ruby

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Published on 2010-03-25T18:42:20Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 18:43 UTC
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So I know in ruby that x.nil? will test if x is null.

What is the simplest way to test if x equals ' ', or ' ', or ' ', etc?

Basically, I'm wondering what the best way to test if a variable is all whitespace?

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