Store aasm state value as capitalized strings

Asked Mar 27 '18 at 20:42

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I was looking to implement this wonderful gem called aasm to my existing project. In my current project, the status column on which I am trying to add aasm, the values are saved as a capitalized string like 'Draft', 'Published' etc

How do I define my state in aasm so, that when an event to change the state is called, the value is saved correctly in capitalized form?

Thanks for the help.

asked Mar 27 '18 at 20:42

Abhishek Jain

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why is it capitalized? You could write a migration to lower it all and then if you need it capitalized in a view do it there. I don't see a way to change the naming in aasm – Anthony Mar 27 '18 at 21:05
Unfortunately, this is not possible. We have many external services which depend upon these values. This would lead to too many changes for us to keep those services happy. – Abhishek Jain Mar 27 '18 at 21:41
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Do those services access the database directly or via your Rails API? – Amin Shah Gilani Mar 28 '18 at 03:51
have you checked if it works with capitals? – max pleaner Mar 28 '18 at 04:13
Anthony's suggestion looks best to me. – Jagdeep Singh Mar 28 '18 at 06:39
I would have loved to lower it all, but we have a couple of services which use the DB directly. Changing in all the services would be very time-consuming. I would probably have to find a workaround or if I have time then maybe downcase all. – Abhishek Jain Mar 28 '18 at 15:26
Thanks everyone! – Abhishek Jain Mar 28 '18 at 15:26

Store aasm state value as capitalized strings

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