My conditional statement in my coffee script is returning a boolean when it should return a number

Question

I’m using Rails 4.2.3. In my coffee script, I have

    console.log(hours) 
    hours = (hours < 10 ? "0" + hours : hours)
    console.log(hours)

but I’m getting some strange results. In the first line, console.log is printing out “14” (a number), but in the next console.log, it prints out “false”. I don’t understand why this is happening. It should remain “14”. What do I need to do to fix this?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '16 at 17:06

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try :

hours = (hours < 10 ? "0" + hours.to_s : hours)

answered May 27 '16 at 17:06

Boltz0r

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Doing that produces the error, "SyntaxError: [stdin]:32:48: unexpected :" when I load the page. Keep in mind htis is a coffee script, not a Ruby script. – Dave May 27 '16 at 19:09

My conditional statement in my coffee script is returning a boolean when it should return a number

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