String “true” and “false” to boolean

Question

I have a Rails application and I\'m using jQuery to query my search view in the background. There are fields q (search term), start_date, end

Answer 1

ActiveRecord provides a clean way of doing this.

def is_true?(string)
  ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Column::TRUE_VALUES.include?(string)
end

ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Column::TRUE_VALUES has all of the obvious representations of True values as strings.