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Statesman Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to Statesman
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AASM
AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)
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FeatureFlags
Feature flags for Rails application.Manages ‘flags’ within your Rails app that determine whether various features are enabled or not.
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Statesman discussion
Statesman reviews and mentions
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A Deep Dive into the Statesman Gem for Ruby: Building Flexible State Machines
Statesman was developed by the team GoCardless to address some of the limitations in other state machine gems like AASM or state_machine. It offers:
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Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011)
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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State Machines in Ruby: An Introduction
Honestly state machines are fantastic in Rails too. My last company built [Statesman](https://github.com/gocardless/statesman/) and being able to lean on it to prevent you getting into invalid states is fantastic. You also get the bonus of tracking the history of states your resources went through (which is especially useful when you're dealing with payments).
At some point you'll have to think about query performance on the state transition table, but it'll go further than you think and is firmly in the realm of problems of success.
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Code review of an Order object implemented as a state machine
I know you were doing educational proof of concent. But when I write them, I usually reach for the statesman gem. Makes state machines pretty trivial IME.
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gocardless/statesman is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Statesman is Ruby.