Parse a String to a Boolean in Ruby on Rails. jeff gardner.

Parse a String to a Boolean in Ruby on Rails. jeff gardner.:

Parse a String to a Boolean in Ruby on Rails Recently, I’ve been working on a headless Rails project, that is, one without a database. All the data to and from the app goes by way of an API. That API, unfortunately, doesn’t follow REST conventions so it’s been up to me to write a lot of the methods that I need. APISmith , the gem I’ve been using to help parse the responses that come back from the API, does a great job at simplifying that process (If you’re interested, read more here ). By providing you the ability to define custom transformers to automatically convert or parse the data that you receive, APISmith allows you to take a strange or bloated response and pare it down to just the data you need represented as a neat little Ruby object. Genius. Just this morning though, I came across one of the responses from the API that seems to be a little confused. There are a f...

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