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

You could add to the String class to have the method of to_boolean. Then you could do 'true'.to_boolean or '1'.to_boolean

class String
  def to_boolean
    self == 'true' || self == '1'
  end
end