I think we're having this problem because the fixtures were dumped from mysql, which treats booleans as tiny integers.

Your solution is clever but may cause you some problems in the future.  Perhaps you can alter the column back to a boolean?

I think we need to tweak the bootstrap dumping here:

file.write YAML::dump( data.inject({}) { |hash, record|

hash["#{table}_#{i.succ!}"] = record

hash

})

  --Ethan McCutchen.....2012-11-09 18:05:29 +0000

this has been addressed in a more durable way in our data generation

  --Ethan McCutchen.....2013-03-13 01:30:00 +0000