From: Mike Moore <blowmage@...>
Date: 2007-05-01T00:00:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and true

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In Ruby, boolean comparisons will always return true unless the value is nil
or false.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_datatype#Ruby

On 4/30/07, aidy.lewis@googlemail.com <aidy.lewis@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have some code the checks whether some text is on the HTML page
>
> @@log.test_results(ie.contains_text('Dashboard')
>
> I should get a TRUE (it's there), but it is returning the figure 62.
> Is anything > 0 in Ruby true? If so, why, and shouldn't the object
> automatically change to boolean?
>
> My xml then is falling through
>
>   if result == TRUE then
>   test_status = @test.add_element 'teststatus'
>   test_status.text = 'PASS'
>
>
> cheers
>
> aidy
>
>
>

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