[Rails] Boolean values

Rob Lally ruby at roblally.plus.com
Tue Feb 1 09:34:12 GMT 2005


'Fraid not. The attribute still gets set to the value of the field - 0/1, as opposed to true/false.

Thanks though,


R.


 >Michael Koziarski wrote:
 >
> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 07:53:54 +0000, Rob Lally <ruby at roblally.plus.com> wrote:
> 
>>This is pretty much the approach I've been taking so far. But rails has spoiled me by writing all of the rest of the
>>code for me; even having to add one line now feels like failure.
> 
> 
> If you declare the column as BOOLEAN, does it work correctly? 
> Boolean's just an alias for tinyint(1), so your application should
> still work.



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