From 4c9944621b872bda1e6b8501972d1867a804bc56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lena <lena@zeromail.org>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 18:47:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Allows attributes with symbol values to be used for checkboxes - Ticket 3209, includes test.

Signed-off-by: Enrico Bianco <enricob@gmail.com>
---
 actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb |    4 ++--
 actionpack/test/template/form_helper_test.rb      |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
index 414a5d4..23b7e78 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
@@ -1013,8 +1013,8 @@ module ActionView
             false
           when Integer
             value != 0
-          when String
-            value == checked_value
+          when String, Symbol
+            value.to_s == checked_value.to_s
           when Array
             value.include?(checked_value)
           else
diff --git a/actionpack/test/template/form_helper_test.rb b/actionpack/test/template/form_helper_test.rb
index 3893d15..da80833 100644
--- a/actionpack/test/template/form_helper_test.rb
+++ b/actionpack/test/template/form_helper_test.rb
@@ -260,6 +260,16 @@ class FormHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
       '<input name="post[secret]" type="hidden" value="off" /><input checked="checked" id="post_secret" name="post[secret]" type="checkbox" value="on" />',
       check_box("post", "secret", {}, "on", "off")
     )
+    @post.secret = :on
+    assert_dom_equal(
+    '<input name="post[secret]" type="hidden" value="off" /><input checked="checked" id="post_secret" name="post[secret]" type="checkbox" value="on" />',
+    check_box("post", "secret", {}, "on", "off")
+    )
+    @post.secret = :off
+    assert_dom_equal(
+    '<input name="post[secret]" type="hidden" value="off" /><input id="post_secret" name="post[secret]" type="checkbox" value="on" />',
+    check_box("post", "secret", {}, "on", "off")
+    )
   end
 
   def test_check_box_with_multiple_behavior
-- 
1.6.4.4