Mmmm. Gotcha. That's a Bryan or Tom question. : -)
On Oct 20, 9:36 am, dd <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for the reply, but I don't need to check the current state. I need
> to retrieve any state from the set of states of the lifecycle. Some sort of
> accessor that fails at compile-time unless you type correctly, like a
> constant indeed.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried this?
>
> > currentstste=article.lifecycle.state_name
>
> > -Owen
>
> > On Oct 20, 1:26 am, dd <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > When you define:
>
> > > class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
> > > Status = HoboFields::EnumString.for
> > > (:draft, :approved, :published)
> > > fields do
> > > status Status
> > > end
> > > end
>
> > > You can use the Article::Status::APPROVED instead of the string
> > > 'approved', and you will avoid any possible typo.
>
> > > Is there anything like that (i mean constants or accessors) for the
> > > Lifecycle states?
>
> > > If you have:
>
> > > state :foo, :default => true
> > > state :bar
>
> > > How can you access the values through a constant? Something like:
> > > Article::State::FOO or Article::Lifecycle::State::FOO.
>
> > > I know: I could set the constants manually and use them to define the
> > > states, but that;s not sexy, specially if there are some internal
> > > constants already set, but I don't find them.
>
> > > What is the official way to access any defined state string/symbol?
>
> > > Thank you
>
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