Rails 7, Enums, Models and Forms

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I recently put together a “how-to use enums” in a Rails 7 project. Feel free to comment either on this thread or on the post itself. Here is the link: ActiveRecord, Enum and ActionView Form | by Stéphane Paquet | Medium Cheers

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Thx for writing this up.

Though I wonder why anyone is actually using these weird ActiveRecord Enums.

I recommend everyone to use proper PostgreSQL Enums. This gem makes them easy to manage inside AR’s migrations and schema: activerecord-postgres_enum

Their largest advantage to me is that I have proper strings shown in database columns, which I can use when writing SQL statements - and don’t have to wonder if I need number 2 or 3.

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