Ruby sprintf style question

In a rails app I have a sprintf("#0.2f",x.price) formatted value
that may be nil. What is the preferred (short-elegant-terse) ruby
way of testing for this and displaying a substitute text (“n/a”) in
place of the missing numeric value?

Regards,
Jim


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x.price && sprintf(“%.2f”, x.price) || ‘n/a’

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