title: Laravel 4 Eloquent assign BIT values
body: <p>I want to set a filed with <code>BIT</code> data type in mySql using Eloquent.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$i = new Step;
  $i-&gt;active = 'b0';
  $i-&gt;save();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the <code>active</code> filed is <code>1</code>, I also tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$i-&gt;active = "b'0'";
  $i-&gt;active = '0';
  $i-&gt;active = false;
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Simply I want to run something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code> INSERT INTO `steps` (`active`) VALUES (b'0')
  </code></pre>