How to output a boolean true or false to display yes or no in Ruby on Rails

Posted on 12 April 2006

So you have a boolean check in your database and you want to convert the output from saying "true" or "false" to something more readable like "yes" or "no". It's as easy as:

<%= article.show? ? 'yes' : 'no' %>

Where article is the object and show is the field in my database with the boolean 1 or 0 stored.

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• Please, con you check the article? the code is not avaiable.

  Pepe at 26 Sep 07 at 08:08

• Hi Pepe,

  The code is there, it reads:

  article.show? ? 'yes' : 'no'

  Can you see the code in the html source? Perhaps there is a css bug here? What browser are you using?

  Thanks,
  Paul.

  Paul at 26 Sep 07 at 08:31

• Thanks so much! I was going crazy trying to figure this out. Sometimes the API and I are speaking different languages…

  It worked perfectly in my application.

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  None at 11 Jul 09 at 23:06

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