Rails and MySQL boolean types

Rails
1

I’m trying to create a model that uses a boolean type, supported by
mysql engine. My generate is like so:

./script/generate model Product name:string vendor_id:integer
in_stock:boolean

However, when I try to play with the console and save products to the
database, only products defined with in_stock = true or in_stock = 1 are
successfully saved. I can’t seem to save items with a false value.
Here’s what I mean:

p = Product.new(:name => “VCR”, :vendor_id => 1, :in_stock => true)
=> #<Product id:nil, name: “VCR”, vendor_id: 1, in_stock: true,
created_at…>

p.save
=> true

This also works with :in_use => 1

vHowever, all these fail:

p = Product.new(:name => “VCR”, :vendor_id => 1, :in_stock => false)
p.save
=> false

p = Product.new(:name => “VCR”, :vendor_id => 1, :in_stock => 0)
p.save
=> false

p = Product.new(:name => “VCR”, :vendor_id => 1, :in_stock => nil)>> p.save
=> false

The migration lists the type as t.boolean :in_use, and the database
shows the column type as tinyint(1).

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

2

On 24 Dec 2008, at 14:37, sa 125 wrote:

nil)>> p.save
=> false

The migration lists the type as t.boolean :in_use, and the database
shows the column type as tinyint(1).

That’s normal. Dou have a validation that this is causing the save to
fail ?

Fred

3

You were right, I had validates_presence_of :name, :vendor_id, :in_stock
inside my model. Once I removed it I was able to save false values. How
can I still validate a boolean once I allow a user to enter values (even
though it’ll be either one or the other, using a checkbox or something)?

4

2008/12/24 sa 125 [email protected]

Probably you can have something like that:

validates_inclusion_of :in_stock => [true, false]