Mastodawn

Ruby has Integer(...) and Float(...), but does it have Boolean(…) for things like:

Boolean(ENV[“SOME_FLAG”])

What's the Ruby idiom here?

@getajobmike I have always used ENV["SOME_FLAG”] == "true”

I am definitely Team I Don’t Like 78 Forms of Boolean Representation, so anything other than the string "true" is considered false to me.

But I would love to see a Boolean data type and coercion method to address this issue from stdlib

["1", "y", "yes", "true"].include?(ENV["FLAG"].to_s.downcase ) 🙃

And of course for the opposite:

["0", "n", "no", "false"].include?(ENV["FLAG"].to_s.downcase)