diff --git a/sea-orm-macros/src/derives/active_enum.rs b/sea-orm-macros/src/derives/active_enum.rs
index 0e2698c66..c67e8f58d 100644
--- a/sea-orm-macros/src/derives/active_enum.rs
+++ b/sea-orm-macros/src/derives/active_enum.rs
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ impl ActiveEnum {
             _ => return Err(Error::InputNotEnum),
         };
 
-        let mut is_string = false;
+        let mut is_string = rename_all_rule.is_some();
         let mut is_int = false;
         let mut variants = Vec::new();
 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ impl ActiveEnum {
                 .map_err(Error::Syn)?;
             }
 
-            if (is_string || rename_rule.is_some() || rename_all_rule.is_some()) && is_int {
+            if is_string && is_int {
                 return Err(Error::TT(quote_spanned! {
                     ident_span => compile_error!("All enum variants should specify the same `*_value` macro attribute, either `string_value` or `num_value` but not both");
                 }));
diff --git a/sea-orm-macros/tests/derive_active_enum_test.rs b/sea-orm-macros/tests/derive_active_enum_test.rs
index bfa694951..dd41d52c5 100644
--- a/sea-orm-macros/tests/derive_active_enum_test.rs
+++ b/sea-orm-macros/tests/derive_active_enum_test.rs
@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ pub enum TestEnum2 {
     HelloWorldTwo,
 }
 
+#[derive(Debug, EnumIter, DeriveActiveEnum, Eq, PartialEq)]
+#[sea_orm(
+    rs_type = "String",
+    db_type = "String(StringLen::None)",
+    rename_all = "snake_case"
+)]
+pub enum TestEnum3 {
+    HelloWorld,
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn derive_active_enum_value() {
     assert_eq!(TestEnum::DefaultVariant.to_value(), "defaultVariant");
@@ -124,4 +134,6 @@ fn derive_active_enum_from_value() {
 fn derive_active_enum_value_2() {
     assert_eq!(TestEnum2::HelloWorld.to_value(), "hello_world");
     assert_eq!(TestEnum2::HelloWorldTwo.to_value(), "helloWorldTwo");
+
+    assert_eq!(TestEnum3::HelloWorld.to_value(), "hello_world");
 }