Numeric context of enum in Views

Rails
1

Hi,

I have a select list of this fashion: edit_patient.rhtml

<%= select ‘patient’, ‘status’, [[‘Unspecified’,1], [‘Researhing’,2],
[‘Critical’,3],
[‘Normal’,4],
[‘Needs extra person’,5],
%>

I have enums defined in the database(mysql) for status. Storage is fine.
But on retrieval, it is always show it as Unspecified . But if i just
display status , i am getting the right string. I realized this was
happening , because returned value for status is string and hence
Selected option is of 0.

Now how do i force the retrieval to numeric context ?
forcing numeric context like status+0 doesn’t work in rails :frowning:

Any suggestions?

Sandeep G

2

I think you are looking for attributes_before_type_cast. See

Sandeep G. wrote:

I have enums defined in the database(mysql) for status. Storage is fine.
Sandeep G

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Sincerely,

William P.