The way that boolean values are stored varies from database to database. Some use 1 and 0 integer values to represent true and false, respectively. Others use characters such as T and F.
How do I choose which to use? 1 and 0, or T and F? And likewise, how do I set them?
Please help clear this up for me!
Thanks!!
Don't try to do the work of the DB adapters: depending on which you've set (one for MySQL, one for PostgreSQL, etc.), they will know what to write.
User.create(is_admin: false) # use Ruby's boolean classes,
# the adapter will translate it in its own language to persist it in the DB
In the same way, the reverse will work perfectly:
User.first.is_admin # => return `true` or `false` (objects of Ruby, not a string like 'true' or 1 or 'T' or whatever)
Use true or false for Boolean, DB adapters handles the rest, in setting just mention if @model_object is an object of model then you can sat it like this @model_object.attribute = false or true
true/false,0/1or't'/'f'as boolean literals (per the documentation). That said, as @MrYoshiji says, with Rails the ORM takes care of this detail for you.