Comments on: Simplistic Enumerations for ActiveRecord http://www.schuerig.de/michael/blog/index.php/2009/04/02/simplistic-enums/ Sentenced to making sense Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:54:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: michael http://www.schuerig.de/michael/blog/index.php/2009/04/02/simplistic-enums/comment-page-1/#comment-91773 michael Thu, 28 May 2009 11:05:37 +0000 http://www.schuerig.de/michael/blog/?p=55#comment-91773 That's interesting. How well does it work in more complicated settings, say as a condition in a query with several joins? I've written easy_enums primarily because I'd run into problems with another plugin that tried to avoid database tables for enumerations. Yours may work perfectly, I don't know, but I'm wary nonetheless. Browsing around on Github, I just noticed <a href="http://github.com/pluginaweek/enumerate_by" rel="nofollow"><tt>enumerate_by</tt></a>. I'll have a closer look at it and possibly deprecate my own stuff in favor of it. That’s interesting. How well does it work in more complicated settings, say as a condition in a query with several joins?

I’ve written easy_enums primarily because I’d run into problems with another plugin that tried to avoid database tables for enumerations. Yours may work perfectly, I don’t know, but I’m wary nonetheless.

Browsing around on Github, I just noticed enumerate_by. I’ll have a closer look at it and possibly deprecate my own stuff in favor of it.

]]> By: Christoph Petschnig http://www.schuerig.de/michael/blog/index.php/2009/04/02/simplistic-enums/comment-page-1/#comment-91772 Christoph Petschnig Thu, 28 May 2009 10:40:27 +0000 http://www.schuerig.de/michael/blog/?p=55#comment-91772 For exact the same problem, I find ConstantRecord very helpful. It is very lightweight and can be easily exchanged with ActiveRecord in both directions: http://github.com/ChristophPetschnig/constantrecord For exact the same problem, I find ConstantRecord very helpful. It is very lightweight and can be easily exchanged with ActiveRecord in both directions: http://github.com/ChristophPetschnig/constantrecord

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