BetterEnum

Sligtly extension of builtin enum.

The examples below is to be under following model with enum.

class Employee < ApplicationRecord
  enum gender: {male: 0, female: 1, other: 2}
end

Define translation definication under activerecord > enums as follows:

en:
  activerecord:
    enums:
      employee:
        gender:
          male: 'Male'
          female: 'Female'
          other: 'Other'

You can get specified translated label and specified value, and also get set of key and translated label pairs.

Employee.gender_label(:male) # => "Male"
Employee.gender_value(:female) # => 1
Employee.gender_labels # => {"male" => "Male", "female" => "Female", "other" => "Other"}

You can get translated label and value.

female_employee.gender_label # => "Female"
other_employee.gender_value # => 2

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'better_enum'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install better_enum

Bug reports and pull requests are accepted on GitHub at https://github.com/smoriwaki/better_enum.

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