From 254c411bd941e7141f57046118fe048a5b82a22a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxwell Salzberg <maxwell@nyu.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:48:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] prevent searching with spaces

---
 app/models/person.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/models/person.rb b/app/models/person.rb
index 0a3f480e6..09e21ab67 100644
--- a/app/models/person.rb
+++ b/app/models/person.rb
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
   scope :searchable, joins(:profile).where(:profiles => {:searchable => true})
 
   def self.search(query)
-    return [] if query.to_s.empty?
+    return [] if query.to_s.blank?
 
     where_clause = <<-SQL
       profiles.first_name LIKE ? OR