Afternoon..   question for the ruby experts in here..  In my code I have a bunch of places where I check if a value is nil, then if it isn't I compare it to another value.  I want to return true if the value is either nil or equals what I am comparing against.. so safe navigation isn't what I need.   Essentially, a lot of code that looks like this 
```
 trigger_delay.from.nil? || trigger_delay.from == state
```
Is there a better way to do that?