app/views/layouts/application.datatables.jsonify in simple_datatables-0.1.2 vs app/views/layouts/application.datatables.jsonify in simple_datatables-0.1.3

@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
   if v.class==WillPaginate::Collection
     json.iTotalRecords v.count
     json.iTotalDisplayRecords v.total_entries
   end
 end
-json.sEcho params["sEcho"]
+json.sEcho params["sEcho"].to_i
 json.aaData do
   json.ingest! yield
 end