Rails - May 2005 - boolean values in view/updating

I am having some problems with displaying boolean values in my 
application.  I''m an newbie at ROR (and Ruby in general), so it may be 
something very simple.

I have a tinyint(1) column in a table (careers) used to store the 0/1. 
It works fine in the scaffold generated edit code:

<p><label
for="career_publish">Publish</label><br/>
<%= check_box ''career'', ''publish'' 
%></p>

However, in my list view it is not checking the box.  Is there something 
I am missing here?  Here''s my view code snippet:

<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
<%
odd_or_even = 0
for career in @careers
	odd_or_even = 1 - odd_or_even
%>

<tr valign="top" class="listItem<%= odd_or_even.to_s
%>">
	<td><%= link_to career.title, :action => ''edit'',
:id => career %></td>
	<td><%= career.posted_on %></td>
	<td><%= career.posted_by %></td>
	<td><%= career.application_deadline %></td>
	<td><%= h(truncate(career.description, 100)) %></td>
	<td><%= career.job_status %></td>
	<td><%= career.publish %></td>
	<td>
	<p><label
for="career_publish">Publish</label><br/>
	<%= check_box ''career'', ''publish'' 
%></p></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
</table>

I would also allow users to toggle this checkbox in the list view, and I 
think I''ve done that by adding a new toggle method and using a 
Javascript onclick event.

Any help, tips, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Again, I am an 
extreme newbie to this -- I usually find myself using Perl, PHP, etc., 
very interested in the ability of ROR to allow for quick CRUD 
application deployment/development.

Thanks.