concord-consortium/rigse

module ControllerParamUtils
  
  def self.included(clazz)
    clazz.class_eval do
  
      protected  
  
      # ugly. but we need to undo our madness of 
      # explicitly seeting boolean params to 'false' (strings)
      def boolean_param(symbol)
        boolvalue = params[symbol]

        if boolvalue.class == String
          boolvalue = false if (boolvalue =~ /false/i)
          boolvalue = true if (boolvalue  =~ /true/i)
        end
        return boolvalue
      end
    end
  end
end