I have a Rails application and I'm using jQuery to query my search view in the background. There are fields q (search term), start_date, end_date and internal. The internal field is a checkbox and I'm using the is(:checked) method to build the url that is queried:
$.getScript(document.URL + "?q=" + $("#search_q").val() + "&start_date=" + $("#search_start_date").val() + "&end_date=" + $("#search_end_date").val() + "&internal=" + $("#search_internal").is(':checked'));
Now my problem is in params[:internal] because there is a string either containing "true" or "false" and I need to cast it to boolean. Of course I can do it like this:
def to_boolean(str)
return true if str=="true"
return false if str=="false"
return nil
end
但是我想一定有一种更Ruby 的方式来处理这个问题！是不是有.？