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-rw-r--r--activerecord/lib/active_record/enum.rb8
-rw-r--r--activerecord/test/cases/enum_test.rb4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/enum.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/enum.rb
index 8eaea6c055..442fb3fdc9 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/enum.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/enum.rb
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ module ActiveRecord
# needs:
#
# Conversation.where(status: [:active, :archived])
- # Conversation.where("status <> ?", :active)
#
# You can set the default value from the database declaration, like:
#
@@ -70,6 +69,13 @@ module ActiveRecord
# Conversation.statuses[:active] # => 0
# Conversation.statuses["archived"] # => 1
#
+ # Use that class method when you need to know the ordinal value of an enum. For
+ # example, you can use that when manually building a SQL string inside a `where`
+ # condition:
+ #
+ # Conversation.where("status <> ?", Conversation.statuses[:archived])
+ #
+
module Enum
def self.extended(base) # :nodoc:
base.class_attribute(:defined_enums)
diff --git a/activerecord/test/cases/enum_test.rb b/activerecord/test/cases/enum_test.rb
index 0cb34b5960..41685cbc39 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/cases/enum_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/cases/enum_test.rb
@@ -42,8 +42,6 @@ class EnumTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
refute_equal @book, Book.where(status: :written).first
assert_equal @book, Book.where(status: [:proposed]).first
refute_equal @book, Book.where(status: [:written]).first
- refute_equal @book, Book.where("status <> ?", :proposed).first
- assert_equal @book, Book.where("status <> ?", :written).first
end
test "find via where with strings" do
@@ -51,8 +49,6 @@ class EnumTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
refute_equal @book, Book.where(status: "written").first
assert_equal @book, Book.where(status: ["proposed"]).first
refute_equal @book, Book.where(status: ["written"]).first
- refute_equal @book, Book.where("status <> ?", "proposed").first
- assert_equal @book, Book.where("status <> ?", "written").first
end
test "build from scope" do