RelaxedEnum

Relax rails enum setter. Allows setting an enum by supplying an integer, string or symbol.

Given a class like

class MyModel < ApplicationRecord
  enum status: [:foo, :bar]
end

rails will throw an ArgumentError if you try to assign string that represents a number to status

model.status = "1"
# Raises error

With this gem, you're free to assign an integer, string or symbol to an enum

model.status = "1"
model.status
# "foo"

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'relaxed_enum'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install relaxed_enum

Relax an enum by adding this to your class

relax_enum :enum_field

For example

class MyModel < ApplicationRecord
  enum status: [:foo, :bar]
  relax_enum :status
end

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/relaxed_enum.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.