Rails enums are a great way to model things like a status on an ActiveRecord model. They provide a set of human-readable methods while storing the result as an integer in the database.

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Sorting ActiveRecord results byenum values (in SQL) is a great way to model things like a status on an ActiveRecord model. It is highly recommended to use a Hash to explicitly define theenum values. If you were to change the order or remove options, you would break the reference mapping.

Sorting ActiveRecord results by enum values (in SQL)