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

Looking at the source code of Virtus, I'd maybe do something like this:

def to_boolean(s)
  map = Hash[%w[true yes 1].product([true]) + %w[false no 0].product([false])]
  map[s.to_s.downcase]
end