Rails (or Ruby): Yes/No instead of True/False

Question

I know I could easily write a function and put it in the application controller, but I'd rather not if there is something else that does this already. Basically I want to have something like:

>> boolean_variable?
=> true
>> boolean_variable?.yesno
=> yes
>> boolean_variable?.yesno.capitalize
=> Yes

is there something like this already in the Rails framework?

Answer 1

No such built-in helper exists, but it's trivially easy to implement:

class TrueClass
  def yesno
    "Yes"
  end
end

class FalseClass
  def yesno
    "No"
  end
end

Answer 2

Alternatively, you could also do one offs in your views such as:

<%= item.bool_field? ? 'yes' : 'no' %>