Ruby conditional statement

Question

I have a condition like:

if connection
  if "name" == connection.name
    ...
  end
end

connection may have nil value initially, so I am not able to check if connection && "name" == connection.name

How can I simplify the condition efficiently?

Answer 1

if connection and connection.name == "name"
   ...
end

Answer 2

unless connection.nil? || connection.name != "name"
  #...Statements
end