title: Outputing value of TrueClass / FalseClass to integer or string/
body: <p>I'm trying to figure out if there is an easy way to do the following short of adding to_i method to TrueClass/FalseClass.</p>
  
  <p>Here is a dilemma:
  I have a boolean field in my rails app - that is obviously stored as Tinyint in mysql. However - I need to generate xml based of the data in mysql and send it to  customer - there SOAP service requires the field in question to have 0 or 1 as the value of this field. So at the time of the xml generation I need to convert my False to 0 and my True to 1 ( which is how they are stored in the DB). Since True &amp; False lack to_i method I could write some if statement that generate either 1 or 0 depending on true/false state. However I have about 10 of these indicators and creating and if/else for each is not very DRY. So what you recommend I do?</p>
  
  <p>Or I could add a to_i method to the True / False class.  But I'm not sure where should I scope it in my rails app? Just inside this particular model or somewhere else?</p>