Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011)

• state_machines

  5 795 3.3 Ruby

  Adds support for creating state machines for attributes on any Ruby class

  

As a regular user of the state_machine Ruby gem, I wouldn't recommend it. If you don't believe me, just check out the "Class definition" section of the usage examples: https://github.com/state-machines/state_machines#usage

The problems are obvious. It's built on magic and indirection. This leads to difficult to debug state machine problems. For anything beyond simple state machines you quickly lose any idea of what your object is doing.

• Statesman

  3 1,728 7.0 Ruby

  A statesmanlike state machine library.

  

I’d strongly recommend Statesman instead: https://gocardless.com/blog/statesman/

I’m unaffiliated, just have used a lot of Ruby SM libraries.

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