Recommendation to use local_assigns.has_key?

You can check loal definition using defined? and local_assigns.has_key?
local_assigns.has_key? is more simple than defined?. You can write one line.

<% if defined? :user_name %>
 <p>hello <%= user_name  %></p>
<% else %>
 <p>hello world</p>
<% end %>

OR

<p>hello <%= local_assigns.has_key? :user_name ? user_name : "world" %></p>