When a controller receives the params of a checked checkbox it comes back as “on” if the box was checked. Now in my case I’m trying to store that value as a boolean, which is typically what you want to with values from checkboxes. My question is, does rails have a way to automatically convert “on” (or even exists) to true/false or do I need to do the following?
value = params[my_checkbox] && params[my_checkbox] == "on" ? true : false
You can just use:
as the checkbox would not return any value if not checked (implied by this forum)