How can I get a set of radio buttons to accept NULL (nothing checked)?

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Published on 2010-03-23T20:42:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 20:43 UTC
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I'm working on a Rails application where I have some a set of two radio buttons where users can click "yes" or "no". The MySQL DB column created by the ActiveRecord migration is a tinyint.

If the user doesn't click either radio button I want MySQL to store NULL. (The column allows NULL.) And when they come back to edit the data, neither button should be checked.

What's happening is that ActiveRecord is storing 0 and then when I come back the "No" button is checked.

Rails 2.3.5

Form code (I'm using Haml):

        = f.radio_button( :model_attribute, true )
        Yes

        = f.radio_button( :model_attribute, false )
        No

(In retrospect it probably would have been better to use a single checkbox, but it would be difficult to change that now.)

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