Ruby Issue Tracking System

09/01/2025

01:50 PM Ruby Feature #21556: Add true? and false? methods to NilClass, TrueClass, FalseClass, and String

shan (Shannon Skipper) wrote in #note-4:
> I wonder if the inclusion of the String variant could be considered again even though it has been merged? Is there a domain where `"true"` and `"false"` Strings are used? The Rails variant tryi... Phalado (Raphael Cordeiro)

01:44 PM Ruby Feature #21556: Add true? and false? methods to NilClass, TrueClass, FalseClass, and String

austin (Austin Ziegler) wrote in #note-3:
> Phalado (Raphael Cordeiro) wrote in #note-2:
> ...
Well, the idea is to recognize true/false values, ignoring truthy/falsy values because of JSON.
I also think this is something very 'Ruby' to... Phalado (Raphael Cordeiro)

08/30/2025

10:58 PM Ruby Feature #21556: Add true? and false? methods to NilClass, TrueClass, FalseClass, and String

nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote in #note-1:
> Phalado (Raphael Cordeiro) wrote:
> ...
Data received on requests and JSON conversion. It's not unusual that a Boolean is converted to a String, or users end up filling in as a String instead... Phalado (Raphael Cordeiro)

08/29/2025

05:28 PM Ruby Feature #21556 (Feedback): Add true? and false? methods to NilClass, TrueClass, FalseClass, and String

Sometimes we need to check for an exact `true` or `false` value. This can be a string or a boolean value.
Usually, what I do to solve this is something like `value.to_s == true`, this way covering for strings, booleans, and nil values... Phalado (Raphael Cordeiro)