How to use enums in Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rail's ships with a module known as Enum which has a parent class of ActiveRecord. This handy module allows you to declare different states in the database using any Model in your Rails application.

Enums are powerful thanks to the built-in methods and scopes that come with the framework. So rather than rolling all your methods in a given model, you can use a convention-based approach to manipulate a given state of something in an app.

In this guide I'll walk you through how to use Enums as well as all of the options Ruby on Rails provides.

Source code: https://github.com/justalever/enum_guide

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