But if all you want is a finite state machine look no further.
Ruby finite state machine.
The fsm can change from one state to another in response to some inputs.
A finite state machine inspired api for modeling and interacting with what we tend to refer to as workflow.
Ruby init rb f your file checkout the user manual for further usage instructions and restrictions.
This video is about state machines and how to implement them in ruby.
Finite state machines may sound like a very dry and boring topic but they reveal a lot about the power of different types of computing machine.
The change from one state to another is called a transition.
A little late to the party here but i was researching this exact issue for myself and found that the gem i m currently using to manage my state machines state machine by pluginaweek has some methods that deal with this issue quite nicely when used with activerecord and i m assuming other persistence layers as well it provides a state event method that accepts a string representation of.
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A finite state machine fsm or finite state automaton fsa plural.
They also turn out to be very useful in practice.
Github is where people build software.
A lot of business modeling tends to involve workflow like concepts and the aim of this library is to make the expression of these concepts as clear as possible using similar terminology as found in state machine theory.
Every turing machine includes a finite state machine so there is a sense in which they come first.
There are many finite state machine implementations for ruby and they all provide a nice dsl for declaring events exceptions callbacks and all kinds of niceties in general.
This has less than 50 lines of code and provides everything a finite state machine must have and nothing.
State machines in ruby.
5 1 5 7 l4 ruby a plain ruby state machine with a straightforward and expressive syntax.
4 8 1 4 l4 ruby adds support for creating state machines for attributes on any ruby class.
Workflow is a finite state machine inspired api for modeling and interacting with what we tend to refer to as workflow.