ruby - Populating Rails table with seeds file - where seed data has a 'false' for intended value in a boolean column, record is not loading -

running rails 4.2, postgres 9.1 on local development machine. attempting seed table 5 rows, 5 columns on each row. 1 of columns boolean value. problem can't seem load records boolean value not true. following schema:

  create_table "institution_types", force: :cascade |t|     t.string   "institution_type"     t.string   "institution_code"     t.datetime "created_at",       null: false     t.datetime "updated_at",       null: false     t.string   "ownership"     t.integer  "term"     t.boolean  "nonprofit"   end 

in seeds.rb file have:

institution_types = [   ["public 4 year", "p4", "public", 4, true],   ["public 2 year", "p2", "public", 2, true],   ["private 4 year profit", "r4p", "private", 4, false],   ["private 2 year profit", "r2p", "private", 2, false],   ["private 4 year nonprofit", "r4np", "private", 4, true],   ["private 2 year nonprofit", "r2np", "private", 2, true] ]  institution_types.each |type, code, ownership, term, nonprofit|   institutiontype.create(institution_type: type, institution_code: code, ownership: ownership,        term: term, nonprofit: nonprofit) end 

note have attempted variants with:

• quotes around boolean values nonprofit column (i.e. "true", "false")
• nothing declared nonprofit column on 2 records setting false (i.e. ["private 4 year profit", "r4p", "private", 4]
• 'nil' declared instead of 'false'

regardless of how attempt load data database, i'm getting records value nonprofit column true. in other words, first two, , last two, in institution_types variable declared above.

this frustrating, , far none of searches on interwebs or stack overflow yielding solutions. suppose load records "true" go db directly , change records sql...but that's dumb.

alternative going ditching boolean value nonprofit column , stating "profit" or "nonprofit" 2 options. but...before (or if turns out best course) i'd know bigger picture rules around getting boolean data database using seeds.rb.

this block silently discarding information need:

institution_types.each |type, code, ownership, term, nonprofit|   institutiontype.create(institution_type: type, institution_code: code,     ownership: ownership, term: term, nonprofit: nonprofit) end 

change create create! , throw, telling issue.