Rails Ruby on Rails

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  Rohit Arondekar September 13th, 2010 @ 07:38 AM

  • Importance changed from “” to “Low”

  Mark, I think you should also post on the core list: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core You'll get more responses there as to whether this is a desired feature or not.

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  Robert Pankowecki September 14th, 2010 @ 08:38 AM

  • Tag changed from “activesupport, attr_accessor, core_ext, patch” to “activesupport, attr_accessor, boolean, core_ext, patch”

  I use such code for this:

  
  module Kernel
    def Boolean(b)
      return b if [FalseClass, TrueClass, NilClass].any?{|k| b.is_a?(k)}
      case b
      when /^1$/, /^true$/i , /^yes$/i then true
      when /^0$/, /^false$/i , /^no$/i then false
      else
        raise ArgumentError, "Unknown conversion to boolean type from: #{b.class}, Inspect: #{b.inspect}"
      end
    end
  end
  
  def bar=(value)
    write_attribute(:bar, Boolean(value))
  end
  

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  Gaston Ramos September 15th, 2010 @ 10:17 AM

  I like the idea, but I'm not sure if it is right to take a lot of values as false

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  Aditya Sanghi October 6th, 2010 @ 06:56 PM

  You may want to make this a plugin first? If it's a really popular plugin, perhaps it will get included in the future.

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  Ryan Bigg October 6th, 2010 @ 09:47 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “wontfix”

  Yes, please make this a plugin.