MySQL BIT column type in ActiveRecord

Rails
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I’m attempting to access a MySQL BIT(1) column with b’1’ as the data in
the case of a true boolean from within activerecord and am unable to get
any output. The table was created by Hibernate (which uses BIT as it’s
boolean type).

I’ve done a considerable amount of searching on this but have not been
able to find an answer. Am I missing something here or is this type of
field unsupported? The docs say it maps to a string type but I never
get any result when accessing the attributes and attempts at casting
haven’t gotten me anywhere.

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Noah Dedmore wrote:

I’m attempting to access a MySQL BIT(1) column with b’1’ as the data in
the case of a true boolean from within activerecord and am unable to get
any output. The table was created by Hibernate (which uses BIT as it’s
boolean type).

I’ve done a considerable amount of searching on this but have not been
able to find an answer. Am I missing something here or is this type of
field unsupported? The docs say it maps to a string type but I never
get any result when accessing the attributes and attempts at casting
haven’t gotten me anywhere.

Nevermind on this… Figured it out… The spreadsheet I was putting
these in was removing the value due to the slashes used in the string
that was being returned.