From d0cb4d7258c9241fcffda854d615c44586189838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: CassioMarques <cassiommc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:31:05 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added note about testing booleans to validates_presence_of

---
 .../guides/html/activerecord_validations_callbacks.html   | 8 ++++++++
 .../guides/source/activerecord_validations_callbacks.txt  | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/html/activerecord_validations_callbacks.html b/railties/doc/guides/html/activerecord_validations_callbacks.html
index 2e5044eb6ece8..6953c3979a8da 100644
--- a/railties/doc/guides/html/activerecord_validations_callbacks.html
+++ b/railties/doc/guides/html/activerecord_validations_callbacks.html
@@ -567,6 +567,14 @@ <h3 id="_the_tt_validates_presence_of_tt_helper">3.10. The <tt>validates_presenc
   validates_presence_of <span style="color: #990000">:</span>order_id
 <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span>
 </tt></pre></div></div>
+<div class="admonitionblock">
+<table><tr>
+<td class="icon">
+<img src="./images/icons/note.png" alt="Note" />
+</td>
+<td class="content">If you want to validate the presence of a boolean field (where the real values are true and false), you will want to use validates_inclusion_of :field_name, :in &#8658; [true, false] This is due to the way Object#blank? handles boolean values. false.blank? # &#8658; true</td>
+</tr></table>
+</div>
 <div class="para"><p>The default error message for <tt>validates_presence_of</tt> is "<em>can't be empty</em>".</p></div>
 <h3 id="_the_tt_validates_size_of_tt_helper">3.11. The <tt>validates_size_of</tt> helper</h3>
 <h3 id="_the_validates_uniqueness_of_helper">3.12. The validates_uniqueness_of+ helper</h3>
diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/source/activerecord_validations_callbacks.txt b/railties/doc/guides/source/activerecord_validations_callbacks.txt
index 568ab8bc23bb2..4dfa92e542606 100644
--- a/railties/doc/guides/source/activerecord_validations_callbacks.txt
+++ b/railties/doc/guides/source/activerecord_validations_callbacks.txt
@@ -256,6 +256,8 @@ class LineItem < ActiveRecord::Base
 end
 ------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+NOTE: If you want to validate the presence of a boolean field (where the real values are true and false), you will want to use validates_inclusion_of :field_name, :in => [true, false] This is due to the way Object#blank? handles boolean values. false.blank? # => true 
+
 The default error message for +validates_presence_of+ is "_can't be empty_".
 
 === The +validates_size_of+ helper