The boolean 'False'

Question

I was doing ruby challenge and I failed a question which asked what the value of false was!After the challenge i discovered false evaluates to truth soo...
Why does the boolean 'false' evaluate to truth in ruby?

Answer 1

@Brains it must have been :
As a string "false" is :
correct ans is : truthy.

Answer 2

@🌞 Brains
In Ruby only false & nil are falsey , everything else is truthy ..😊😊😊
the que u r referring in that
false is taken as string "false". so its truthy😎😎😎
I hope u start challenging me in Ruby😎 bro...!!
I will solve all ur doubts 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Answer 3

if "false" is taken as string it's truthy
if false is taken as boolean it's false.

Answer 4

Jimmy I know it's you Victor sooo....

Answer 5

You are the dumbest friend I have😂😂you open an account and immediately the first thing you do is comment on my post?and you think I wouldn't suspect?FAIL

Answer 6

ok

Answer 7

that helped a lot

Answer 8

thanks

Answer 9

I've cleared my challenge history

Answer 10

ohhh...

Answer 11

in one of the questions that I did, it said the opposite. Maybe the question was wrong

Answer 12

No. Question was not wrong.

Answer 13

@sid see this
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/875001/?ref=app

Answer 14

Well, there are two objects in Ruby that evaluates to false.
1) nil
2) false (as a boolean value)
I suppose that in challenge there is about "false" string, which evaluates to true.
This is tricky question, but still valid, and even cool imo :)

Answer 15

Apart from true and false, if you try to evaluate something that is not a boolean, ruby will treat them as truthy and falsey. Only false and nil are falsey, everything else is truthy. The boolean false is obviously false, but if it is a string “false”, then ruby treats it as truthy.

Answer 16

@Deoanshu Thakur Sorry if you don’t like me always challenging you 😅I don’t know why but I like to challenge someone who is better than me. If you think I am spamming and disturbing you, please let me know. I will stop challenging you then 😀

Answer 17

@sid you are wrong
"true" = truthy
"false" = truthy

Answer 18

"false" = truthy
"true" = falsey