How do I convert boolean values to integers?

Question

I have a boolean value to check if it is true, then set a local variable. How do I refactor this so it is more Ruby-ish?

if firm.inflection_point
  inflectio         


        

Answer 1

If you just have that at one point, then rudolph9's answer is good, but if you are having a similar kind of logic all over the place, then maybe it might make sense with general use in mind to monkey patch:

class FalseClass; def to_i; 0 end end
class TrueClass; def to_i; 1 end end

inflection_point = firm.inflection_point.to_i

Within Ruby, you should keep all of your logic dealing with truth values rather than 0 and 1, but I guess you are dealing with some inputs or outputs from/to some external system that deals with 0 and 1. Then, doing like this will make sense.