Explain on your fingers how to create a status for an object?

Question

Ruby on Rails

Hello.
Let's say there is a note in the form of a task and you need to make several statuses for it, "in progress" and "completed". What is the best way to implement this?

Answer 1

Everything freed the head.
So so.
There are two, simple, options for implementing your task:
1. Add the "status" field to the model and implement select with predefined statuses in the form
2. the same thing, but create another "Status" model in the "ststus" field p.1 . store the "id" of the status
The second option is preferable, since it does not force you to add a new status to edit views or controllers if necessary, just add new statuses to the database.
quickly a project to figure out
https://github.com/POStroi/lavezzi1_toster
Well, no one bothers to put down the status with buttons, AJAX requests, and in general, whatever your heart desires :)

Answer 2

1. manually make fields "in progress", 'readyh' ...
2. google ruby ​​state machine (ASM, Workflow gems)