Yeah, the `<%- ` has always just been a force of habit that I need to break myself of.

I agree that I don't like this inline if in the view. Just to make sure I'm taking your meaning correctly @jcoyne do you want me to create a helper_method in the controller that will handle this logic or would you like me to instantiate a new instance variable in the action to store the contact_emails that have gone through this logic.

Also, I had thought about putting this in the model itself but then that would break any checks for blankness on `contact_emails` since I would be pre-populating w/ an empty string (which seemed like could cause more issues in the future).