StateGate

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• state management for ActiveRecord
• requirements
• installation
• change log
• summary
• wiki - how to do anything
• RSpec test helpers
• contributing
• code of conduct
• license

The state, the whole state and nothing but the state!

Designed for use with ActiveRecord, StateGate has a single responsibility:

• to only allow a valid state to be set.
• to only allow a valid transition from one state to another.

With a simple DSL and a sprinkling of syntactic sugar, StateGate is intuitive and easy to use.

No guard clauses?

Nope! ActiveRecord validations are the best way to keep everything in order.

No events?

Nope! Changing state is often the smallest part of an event. Events often access other attributes or associations, and are the responsibility of the model, not the StateGate.

Is it opinionated?

Very! Any attempt to set an invalid state or transition will raise an exception. Exceptions are raised before accessing the database or triggering any callbacks.

• Ruby 2.5+
• ActiveRecord 5.0+

Add this line to your Gemfile:

gem 'state_gate'

A quick list of StateGate's creation, configuration, class & instance methods. Each method links to a more in-depth explanation within the Wiki.

Creating a StateGate on the :status attribute with states of :draft, :pending, :published & :archived.

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  include StateGate

  state_gate :status do
    state :draft,     transitions_to: :pending
    state :pending,   transitions_to: [:published, :archived], human: 'Pending Approval'
    state :published, transitions_to: :archived
    state :archived
  end
end

• state
  • transitions_to
  • human
• default
• prefix
• postfix
• no_scopes
• make_sequential
  • one_way
  • loop

• #statuses
• #human_statuses
• #status_transitions
• #status_transitions_for(:draft | :pending | :published | :archived)
• #statuses_for_select, #statuses_for_select(:sorted)

• #draft
• #pending
• #published
• #archived
• #not_draft
• #not_pending
• #not_published
• #not_archived

• .statuses
• .human_statuses
• .human_status
• .force_draft, .force_published, :force_archived
• .draft?, .pending?, .published?, .archived?
• .not_draft?, .not_pending?, .not_published?, .not_archived?
• .status_transitions
• .status_transitions_to?(:draft | :pending | :published | :archived)
• .statuses_for_select, .statuses_for_select(:sorted)

• ...testing states
• ...testing transitions

• Security issues
• Reporting issues
• Pull requests

In all cases please respect our Contributor Code of Conduct.

If you have found a security related issue, please follow our Security Policy.

Please try to answer the following questions in your bug report:

• What did you do?
• What did you expect to happen?
• What happened instead?

Make sure to include as much relevant information as possible, including:

• Ruby version.
• StateGate version.
• ActiveRecord version.
• OS version.
• The steps needed to replicate the issue.
• Any stack traces you have are very valuable.

We encourage contributions via GitHub pull requests.

Our Developer Guide details how to fork the project; get it running locally; run the tests; check the documentation; check your style; and submit a pull request.

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