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Ruby

Wiley Conte
Wiley Conte
9,618 Points
Posted by Wiley Conte
Wiley Conte
9,618 Points

What is the best way to handle Rails active record associations between different user roles (enum in User model)?

I'm setting up a user model with three roles: 

class User < ApplicationRecord

  enum role: {
    producer: 0,
    member: 1,
    admin: 2,]

  after_initialize do
    if self.new_record?
      self.role ||= :member
    end
  end

  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
         :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

  validates :email, :uniqueness => {:case_sensitive => false}

I'm wondering how I can access these roles for associations with my other Models? For example in one model shares needs to belongs_to :producer and has_many :members but this doesn't seem to work properly. Thank you in advance!