How to store enum as string to database in rails

Question

How do I create a migration in ruby where the default is a string rather than an Integer, I want to store enum into the database, but I do not want to store it as Integer, becau

Answer 1

To my knowledge it is not possible with standard Rails enum. Look at https://github.com/lwe/simple_enum, it is more functionally rich, and also allows storing of enum values as strings to DB (column type string, i.e. varchar in terms of DB).