How get integer value from a enum in Rails?

Question

I have a enum in my Model that corresponds to column in the database.

The enum looks like:

  enum sale_info: { plan_1: 1, plan_2: 2, plan_3: 3, plan_4: 4, plan_5: 5 } 

How can I get the integer value?

I've tried

Model.sale_info.to_i 

But this only returns 0.

Answer 1

You can get the integer values for an enum from the class the enum is on:

Model.sale_infos # Pluralized version of the enum attribute name 

That returns a hash like:

{ "plan_1" => 1, "plan_2" => 2 ... } 

You can then use the sale_info value from an instance of the Model class to access the integer value for that instance:

my_model = Model.find(123) Model.sale_infos[my_model.sale_info] # Returns the integer value 

Answer 2

You can get the integer like so:

my_model = Model.find(123) my_model[:sale_info] # Returns the integer value 

Update for rails 5

For rails 5 the above method now returns the string value :(

The best method I can see for now is:

my_model.sale_info_before_type_cast 

Shadwell's answer also continues to work for rails 5.