Rails - Using true and false

Question

I have the following in my controller:

if params[:archive] == 'true'
  @archived_new_status = true
else
  @archived_new_status = false
end

Then later in create.je.erb do:

<% if !@archived_new_status.nil? %>
   xxx.myfuncthatNeedsTrueOrFalse(<%=@archived_new_status%>);
<% end %>

That only works when @archived_new_status is true, when it's false that seems to not be getting set as false. When I do a Rails.logger.info on @archived_new_status for false it outputs nothing, if I inspect it, I get false.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

The code in the controller can be written:

@archive_new_status = (params[:archive] == 'true')

View: I don't understand why you check if the variable is nil; @archive_new_status is either true or false, so simply call the JS code (using to_json for any argument you have):

xxx.myfuncthatNeedsTrueOrFalse(<%= @archived_new_status.to_json %>);

Answer 2

try:

<% if !@archived_new_status.blank? %>
   xxx.myfuncthatNeedsTrueOrFalse(<%=@archived_new_status%>);
<% end %>