Conversion between types is fairly common in Ruby. With that said I'd
recommend you look into `ActiveModel::Type::Boolean.new.cast(my_value)`,
which handles the all cases above.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Greg Navis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey!
>
> I think this would cause confusion. First, the logical values of `string`
> and `string.to_bool` would be different. Second, what would you return for
> a string "foobar"?
>
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