Rails 7 support

[jasonfb]

[PGEnum] Current ActiveRecord version unsupported! Falling back to: 6.1

[alassek]

Native enums are supported by 7, so I'll probably do one more release to officially deprecate this library so people can migrate their schemas.

[soffes]

@alassek I have really enjoyed using your gem. Thanks so much for all of your work! ❤️

[soffes]

@alassek if you have the time, it would really appreciate a guide for how to adopt the Rails 7 things. I was able to figure out the model changes, but I'm having trouble finding how to update the migrations other using using plain SQL.

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For others, this is what I in my models:

KINDS = %w[foo bar]

# Before
include PGEnum(kind: KINDS, _suffix: true)

# After
enum :kind, KINDS.index_by(&:to_sym), suffix: true

Also the Rails 7 docs say _suffix: but it's actually suffix:.

[alassek]

@soffes thank you, I glad that it was useful! Lately I've been much happier working with ROM, so it's just as well that Rails is obsoleting this gem.

The major difference is that my syntax was t.enum :column_name, as: "sql_type" and rails is t.enum :column_name, enum_type: "sql_type". I think mine reads better but whatever.

As for the module builder, my recommendation is to just copy-paste the code into your project. It's a very small part of the gem, not really worth the dependency on its own.

[jasonfb]

Nevermind, this is now in Rails 7.

When upgrading to Rails 7, you will remove this gem and:

replace the model enum defs

PGEnum()

with the default rails

enum thing: {..}

and in the rails migration as on the setting for the enum field becomes enum_type
https://jfb.teachable.com/courses/hot-glue-in-depth-tutorial/lectures/36600895
otherwise, Rails 7 seems to

covered recently in my Hot Glue tutorial
https://jfb.teachable.com/courses/hot-glue-in-depth-tutorial/lectures/36600895

[rayfaddis]

Rails 7 added better enum model support for PG enums though only added the create_enum migration command so this gem still offers\offered some nice and additional things.

See my Rails 7 PR that adds all of the migration commands to Rails 7 rails/rails#44898

[alassek]

@rayfaddis That's a fair point. I will release a new version with only the additional stuff.

[alassek]

Version 2.0 has been released for Rails 7, there are a couple breaking interface changes. See CHANGELOG for more info

[jasonfb]

@alassek - can you explain what advantage this gem has over the native Rails 7 tools?

[alassek]

@jasonfb Everything that Rails 7 has implemented has been dropped from 2.0 but there were some additional migration helpers that they didn't implement:

• drop_enum
• rename_enum
• add_enum_value
• rename_enum_value