Ruby on Rails

On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Tony Primerano wrote:

> I feel like I'm missing something obvious here..
>
> I have a Post object and it has a draft attribute. It may be nil,
> true or false. I want nil to be treated as false
>
> Post.where(:draft => false) does not pick up the posts where draft is
> unset(nil)
>
> This leaves me to query with
>
> Post.where('draft is NOT true')
>
> Is there a cleaner way to do this? I prefer using hash conditions.
> I could set the draft boolean before_save but it seems wasteful.

Alter your database so that the default value for 'draft' is false. Then update your database to set any nil values to false.

-philip

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