Importing records, a way to ignore initial state

[akatz]

I wrote a bulk uploader importing existing data in csv form. Unfortunately the state is reset regardless of the state on import. Is there any way to ignore set_initial_state so I can import existing data?

[alto]

Is this what you want to achieve?

class ImportedData
  aasm_initial_state :open
  aasm_state :open
  aasm_state :closed
end

data = ImportedData.create(:data => '...', :aasm_state => 'closed')

data.closed? # => true

[srayhan]

Alto, I also have the same need. Is this supported?

[akatz]

alto,
I haven't gotten the hang of GH notifications yet, my apologies. Yes that is what I need. The ability on create to be able to overwrite the state.

[alto]

Sorry for not having come back to this earlier on.

This behaviour is supported for persisted objects (ActiveRecord, etc.), so in my example it should be

class ImportedData < ActiveRecord::Base
...

For all other classes you could define an initializer like this:

class ImportedData
  def initialize(attributes)
    self.current_state = attributes[:aasm_state]
  end
  ...
end