Install from source skipped when run with ruby_install_from_source=True

[rideallday]

When I set ruby_install_from_source=True the install-from-source.yml contents are always skipped.

Appears that the when clause is not being evaluated as a boolean.

[geerlingguy]

@rideallday - Are you setting that boolean in an inventory variable inline with other vars? If so, Ansible sets that True to a string ("True"), and that's likely the cause. Can you set the variable some other way, either using YAML inventory (which sets booleans appropriately), or via some other means?

[rideallday]

I am setting in a yaml vars file like this:
ruby_install_from_source: True

(that is interesting/annoying about the inventories- I will keep that in mind in future tho!)

I think the issue is that the true in == True is being evaluated as a string rather than a boolean.

See the piece in here setting the var 'epic'. It
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_conditionals.html#the-when-statement

This is positively ancient, but it explains it better then I can.
ansible/ansible#9369

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