I'm having problems working with a mysql bit in Rails and ActiveRecord. We store a bit for the published-state of Localities.

`published` bit(1) NOT NULL

I scaffolded it as published:binary in rails.

Locality.first.publishedreturns "\x01".

How do I get rails to treat this field as a boolean?

There is a staled Ticket but hacking ActiveRecord is not really an option. https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/6102-activerecord-boolean-support-with-bit1-mysql-data-type

ruby-on-rails ruby-on-rails-3
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