CYB-229 - Likes: hook the front-end up to the back-end

https://jira.ets.berkeley.edu/jira/browse/CYB-229
See the comments above.  Ruby true != 'true' ... one is a String, the other is TrueClass (which has only ever one instance in a process), same of course for FalseClass.   Also the String 'false' is true .. (it is neither nil nor false).