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Clean Up Optional Attributes in Rails with Normalizes

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Optional attributes are empty strings by default, but we can clean these up as nil in Rails using normalizes

Notes

class Example < ApplicationRecord
  normalizes :optional_attribute, with: -> { it.presence }
end