From 069e9c829708fb696218e1f3eb500f5cbaa0448c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Weigh <daniel@jamkazam.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:18:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] VRFS-1135 allow empty string to be passed in to start
 parameter

(due to jQuery not stripping null / empty params and refactor)
---
 ruby/lib/jam_ruby/models/feed.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ruby/lib/jam_ruby/models/feed.rb b/ruby/lib/jam_ruby/models/feed.rb
index 27ba46c68..f85912c58 100644
--- a/ruby/lib/jam_ruby/models/feed.rb
+++ b/ruby/lib/jam_ruby/models/feed.rb
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ module JamRuby
       sort ||= 'date'
       raise "not valid sort #{sort}" unless SORT_TYPES.include?(sort)
 
-      start = params[:start]
+      start = params[:start].presence
       if sort == 'date'
         start ||= FIXNUM_MAX
       else