Behavior of BooleanFactory on numeric types

[dhruvbansal]

Run the following script

require 'gorillib/model'
class Foo
  include Gorillib::Model
  field   :boolsy, :boolean
end
[true, false, 'true', 'false', '0', '1', 0, 1,].each do |thing|
  puts [thing.inspect, Foo.receive(boolsy: thing).boolsy.to_s].join("\t")
end

Using latest Gorillib (0.5.0) I see

$ ruby bool_test.rb
true    true
false   false
"true"  true
"false" false
"0"     true
"1"     true
0       true
1       true

Shouldn't the behavior be to default to interpret 0 and "0" as false and 1 and "1" as true? Or is the belief that this pattern is "not common or reliable enough to encode in a library"?

[mrflip]

There's a :boolean_10 type that does exactly what you want.

On Aug 12, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Dhruv Bansal [email protected] wrote:

Run the following script

require 'gorillib/model'
class Foo
include Gorillib::Model
field :boolsy, :boolean
end
[true, false, 'true', 'false', '0', '1', 0, 1,].each do |thing|
puts [thing.inspect, Foo.receive(boolsy: thing).boolsy.to_s].join("\t")
end
Using latest Gorillib (0.5.0) I see

$ ruby bool_test.rb
true true
false false
"true" true
"false" false
"0" true
"1" true
0 true
1 true
Shouldn't the behavior be to default to interpret 0 and "0" as false and 1 and "1" as true? Or is the belief that this pattern is "not common or reliable enough to encode in a library"?

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