i know about the storage issue (or at least I thought I did) but what I am saying is that the returned values are different between the attribute for_charity and for_charity?
Surely that has nothing to do with how the values are stored? I sent the output form console in my original email to show that. -ants On 4 June 2011 09:13, Chris Kottom <[email protected]> wrote: > The actual representation of any attribute type in Rails will depend on the > underlying DBMS as the mapping changes from platform to platform. But if we > assume we're talking about SQLite as an example, it uses a SQLite boolean > which is actually stored as 0 for FALSE or 1 for TRUE, and both of these are > considered "trueish" values by Ruby. > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Ants Pants <[email protected]>wrote: > >> When creating a boolean attribute in ActiveRecord, you get a ? method for >> free. Sadly, it's returning false for a true value. Does anyone know what >> might be going on? >> >> From my console (for_charity: true). Same behaviour on Rails 2.3.8 and >> 2.3.11 >> >> ruby-1.8.7-p302 > m.for_charity? >> => false >> ruby-1.8.7-p302 > m.for_charity >> => true >> ruby-1.8.7-p302 > >> >> Thx in advance >> >> -ants >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
