Hi Leo, A suggestion if you wanted to build this feature as a gem: the Pacecar gem used to add these scopes automatically. It's no longer maintained, but you could dig up some of the code to just get the automatic scopes for booleans.
https://github.com/thoughtbot/pacecar -Geoff On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:13 AM, Kevin Deisz <kevin.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > IIRC, this was actually a thing in Rails 2 and it got taken out. I agree > with you about the convention over configuration idea, but when you only > need the one line of code to get it back, and it relieves a maintenance > burden and makes things faster, I'd have to side with it not being in core. > > That being said, this is one of those things that would be great for a gem > to provide automatically (basically on initialize search through for every > boolean column and set up scopes). Sounds like a good project if you've got > time to take it on. > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:49 AM, radhames brito <rbri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Leo. >> I think it makes more sense to make this an op-in thing like this >> >> class User < ActiveRecord::Base >> >> boolean_scope :active >> >> end >> >> >> And then you have the scope ```User.active```, with the extra option of >> doing ```boolean_scope :active, negative: :inactive``` that would create >> the scope for the false case. >> This of course would raise if there is not column matching the name, >> since any more work and is easier to declare the scope. Just my 2 cents. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Kasper Timm Hansen <kas...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I don’t think we’d like to autogenerate scopes for your models based on >>> the column type, no. >>> >>> >>> You might want to look into using an enum >>> <http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Enum.html> backed >>> by an integer ”status” column instead of the boolean column. >>> >>> That generates a scope as well as making it really easy to add another >>> state, should you need ever need to do so. >>> >>> Den 4. jan. 2018 kl. 13.16 skrev Léo Santos <aleot...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Hi there! >>> >>> I would like to introduce a feature that can expedite development, which >>> by the way I think it's one of the greatest advantages of using Ruby on >>> Rails. So, looking to follow the *Convention Over Configuration* >>> standard, lets say you have: >>> >>> >>> # a users table >>> >>> create_table "users", force: true do |t| >>> >>> t.boolean "active", default: true >>> >>> end >>> >>> >>> # a User model >>> >>> class User < ActiveRecord::Base >>> end >>> >>> >>> The new feature would automatically add the scope to fetch active users >>> like: >>> >>> >>> >User.active >>> >>> >>> without having to explicitly define it on the model. It is similar to a >>> feature that has already been implemented to boolean attributes that allow >>> us to do things like: >>> >>> >user = User.new(active: true) >>> >user.active*?* >>> #=> true >>> >>> Do you think it's worthy merging it into Rails core? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Leonardo Santos >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Kasper >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > *Kevin D. 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