The value parsing tool to return a boolean that you never knew you needed!

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'trybool'

And then execute:

$ bundle 

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install trybool 

Tried to make this as straight forward a tool as possible.

Trybool.parse("1") => true

Trybool.parse("off") => false

You can even configure it for additional values you may want.

A once falsey value:

Trybool.parse("applesauce") => false

With a little configuration:

Trybool.configure do |config| config << "applesauce" end

Is now known as the truth!

Trybool.parse("applesauce") => true

Just remember a Boolean only has two states, so we only define 'truthy' values. Now we can make a powerful assumption that if it's not the truth... it's false.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/hashrocket/trybool.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.