If a type of a column is boolean, you must not use “as_boolean” in input field. 【Ruby on Rails】

Sometimes, we see a column which is a “flag”. For example, “status”, “deleted”, and “is_changed”. If their types are boolean, you shouldn’t use as_ boolean input option for the columns.

Class: Formtastic::Inputs::BooleanInput

Because the value is “0” or “1”, which means the type is number. We have to change the numbers into booleans somewhere. It leads to a bug. Actually, the code caused a bug of Stripe(https://stripe.com/en-jp) in our project.

Instead of that, we have to write codes like below.

<%= f.input :published, checked_value: :true, unchecked_value: :false %>

If you want to use “as_boolean”, the type of the column should be number.

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