Replace aasm with Rails Enum today There’s a great chance that your Rails app contains one of the gems providing so called state machine implementation. There’s event a greater chance that it will be aasm formerly known as acts_as_state_machine. Btw. Who remembers acts_as_hasselhoff? — ok, boomer. The aasm does quite a lot when included into your ActiveRecord model — the question is do you really need all those things?

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Replace aasm gem with Rails Enum to simplify code, eliminate unnecessary features, and improve compatibility with future Rails versions.