diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/extend/blank.rb b/Library/Homebrew/extend/blank.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..87b0e3510c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/extend/blank.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
+# typed: true
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+require "concurrent/map"
+
+class Object
+  # An object is blank if it's false, empty, or a whitespace string.
+  # For example, +nil+, '', '   ', [], {}, and +false+ are all blank.
+  #
+  # This simplifies
+  #
+  #   !address || address.empty?
+  #
+  # to
+  #
+  #   address.blank?
+  #
+  # @return [true, false]
+  def blank?
+    respond_to?(:empty?) ? !!T.unsafe(self).empty? : false
+  end
+
+  # An object is present if it's not blank.
+  #
+  # @return [true, false]
+  def present?
+    !blank?
+  end
+
+  # Returns the receiver if it's present otherwise returns +nil+.
+  # <tt>object.presence</tt> is equivalent to
+  #
+  #    object.present? ? object : nil
+  #
+  # For example, something like
+  #
+  #   state   = params[:state]   if params[:state].present?
+  #   country = params[:country] if params[:country].present?
+  #   region  = state || country || 'US'
+  #
+  # becomes
+  #
+  #   region = params[:state].presence || params[:country].presence || 'US'
+  #
+  # @return [Object]
+  def presence
+    self if present?
+  end
+end
+
+class NilClass
+  # +nil+ is blank:
+  #
+  #   nil.blank? # => true
+  #
+  # @return [true]
+  def blank?
+    true
+  end
+
+  def present? # :nodoc:
+    false
+  end
+end
+
+class FalseClass
+  # +false+ is blank:
+  #
+  #   false.blank? # => true
+  #
+  # @return [true]
+  def blank?
+    true
+  end
+
+  def present? # :nodoc:
+    false
+  end
+end
+
+class TrueClass
+  # +true+ is not blank:
+  #
+  #   true.blank? # => false
+  #
+  # @return [false]
+  def blank?
+    false
+  end
+
+  def present? # :nodoc:
+    true
+  end
+end
+
+class Array
+  # An array is blank if it's empty:
+  #
+  #   [].blank?      # => true
+  #   [1,2,3].blank? # => false
+  #
+  # @return [true, false]
+  alias_method :blank?, :empty?
+
+  def present? # :nodoc:
+    !empty?
+  end
+end
+
+class Hash
+  # A hash is blank if it's empty:
+  #
+  #   {}.blank?                # => true
+  #   { key: 'value' }.blank?  # => false
+  #
+  # @return [true, false]
+  alias_method :blank?, :empty?
+
+  def present? # :nodoc:
+    !empty?
+  end
+end
+
+class Symbol
+  # A Symbol is blank if it's empty:
+  #
+  #   :''.blank?     # => true
+  #   :symbol.blank? # => false
+  alias_method :blank?, :empty?
+
+  def present? # :nodoc:
+    !empty?
+  end
+end
+
+class String
+  BLANK_RE = /\A[[:space:]]*\z/
+  ENCODED_BLANKS = Concurrent::Map.new do |h, enc|
+    h[enc] = Regexp.new(BLANK_RE.source.encode(enc), BLANK_RE.options | Regexp::FIXEDENCODING)
+  end
+
+  # A string is blank if it's empty or contains whitespaces only:
+  #
+  #   ''.blank?       # => true
+  #   '   '.blank?    # => true
+  #   "\t\n\r".blank? # => true
+  #   ' blah '.blank? # => false
+  #
+  # Unicode whitespace is supported:
+  #
+  #   "\u00a0".blank? # => true
+  #
+  # @return [true, false]
+  def blank?
+    # The regexp that matches blank strings is expensive. For the case of empty
+    # strings we can speed up this method (~3.5x) with an empty? call. The
+    # penalty for the rest of strings is marginal.
+    empty? ||
+      begin
+        BLANK_RE.match?(self)
+      rescue Encoding::CompatibilityError
+        ENCODED_BLANKS[self.encoding].match?(self)
+      end
+  end
+
+  def present? # :nodoc:
+    !blank?
+  end
+end
+
+class Numeric # :nodoc:
+  # No number is blank:
+  #
+  #   1.blank? # => false
+  #   0.blank? # => false
+  #
+  # @return [false]
+  def blank?
+    false
+  end
+
+  def present?
+    true
+  end
+end
+
+class Time # :nodoc:
+  # No Time is blank:
+  #
+  #   Time.now.blank? # => false
+  #
+  # @return [false]
+  def blank?
+    false
+  end
+
+  def present?
+    true
+  end
+end
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
index 487b40710e..396adbdd90 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ require "set"
 
 # Only require "core_ext" here to ensure we're only requiring the minimum of
 # what we need.
+require "extend/blank"
 require "active_support/core_ext/array/access"
 require "active_support/core_ext/enumerable"
 require "active_support/core_ext/file/atomic"
 require "active_support/core_ext/hash/deep_merge"
 require "active_support/core_ext/hash/except"
 require "active_support/core_ext/hash/keys"
-require "active_support/core_ext/object/blank"
 require "active_support/core_ext/string/exclude"
 require "active_support/core_ext/string/filters"
 require "active_support/core_ext/string/indent"