has_default_value

has_default_value sets default value to Rails application's ActiveRecord model without saved.

The default value set with I18n.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'has_default_value'

And then execute:

$ bundle

In app/models/user.rb:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_default_value :name
end

In config/locales/en.yml:

en:
  activerecord:
    defaults:
      user:
        name: no name

Then application behaves as follows:

$ bin/rails c
> user = User.create
>
> user.name #=> "no name"
> user.read_attribute(:name) #=> nil
>
> user.name = 'user name'
> user.name #=> "user name"

That's it.

If you want to set multiple default values, you can write as follows:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_default_value :name, :email, :address, ...
end

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/kami30k/has_default_value/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request