这完全取决于你如何使用Java或c#枚举。如何使用它将决定您在Ruby中选择的解决方案。

尝试本机Set类型，例如:

>> enum = Set['a', 'b', 'c']
=> #<Set: {"a", "b", "c"}>
>> enum.member? "b"
=> true
>> enum.member? "d"
=> false
>> enum.add? "b"
=> nil
>> enum.add? "d"
=> #<Set: {"a", "b", "c", "d"}>

另一种解决方案是使用OpenStruct。它非常简单明了。

https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.3.1/libdoc/ostruct/rdoc/OpenStruct.html

例子:

# bar.rb
require 'ostruct' # not needed when using Rails

# by patching Array you have a simple way of creating a ENUM-style
class Array
   def to_enum(base=0)
      OpenStruct.new(map.with_index(base).to_h)
   end
end

class Bar

    MY_ENUM = OpenStruct.new(ONE: 1, TWO: 2, THREE: 3)
    MY_ENUM2 = %w[ONE TWO THREE].to_enum

    def use_enum (value)
        case value
        when MY_ENUM.ONE
            puts "Hello, this is ENUM 1"
        when MY_ENUM.TWO
            puts "Hello, this is ENUM 2"
        when MY_ENUM.THREE
            puts "Hello, this is ENUM 3"
        else
            puts "#{value} not found in ENUM"
        end
    end

end

# usage
foo = Bar.new    
foo.use_enum 1
foo.use_enum 2
foo.use_enum 9


# put this code in a file 'bar.rb', start IRB and type: load 'bar.rb'

module Status
  BAD  = 13
  GOOD = 24

  def self.to_str(status)
    for sym in self.constants
      if self.const_get(sym) == status
        return sym.to_s
      end
    end
  end

end


mystatus = Status::GOOD

puts Status::to_str(mystatus)

输出:

GOOD

irb(main):016:0> num=[1,2,3,4]
irb(main):017:0> alph=['a','b','c','d']
irb(main):018:0> l_enum=alph.to_enum
irb(main):019:0> s_enum=num.to_enum
irb(main):020:0> loop do
irb(main):021:1* puts "#{s_enum.next} - #{l_enum.next}"
irb(main):022:1> end

输出:

1 - a 2 - b 3 - c 4 - d

如果您担心符号的拼写错误，请确保您的代码在访问具有不存在键的值时引发异常。你可以使用fetch而不是[]:

my_value = my_hash.fetch(:key)

或者在默认情况下，如果你提供了一个不存在的键，让哈希抛出一个异常:

my_hash = Hash.new do |hash, key|
  raise "You tried to access using #{key.inspect} when the only keys we have are #{hash.keys.inspect}"
end

如果散列已经存在，你可以添加异常引发行为:

my_hash = Hash[[[1,2]]]
my_hash.default_proc = proc do |hash, key|
  raise "You tried to access using #{key.inspect} when the only keys we have are #{hash.keys.inspect}"
end

通常情况下，您不必担心常量的拼写安全问题。如果你拼错了常量名，通常会引发异常。

我知道自从那个人发布这个问题已经有很长时间了，但我也有同样的问题，这篇文章没有给我答案。我想要一种简单的方法来查看数字代表什么，便于比较，最重要的是ActiveRecord支持使用表示枚举的列进行查找。

我没有找到任何东西，所以我做了一个很棒的实现，叫做yinum，它允许我所寻找的一切。做了很多规格，所以我很确定它是安全的。

一些示例特性:

COLORS = Enum.new(:COLORS, :red => 1, :green => 2, :blue => 3)
=> COLORS(:red => 1, :green => 2, :blue => 3)
COLORS.red == 1 && COLORS.red == :red
=> true

class Car < ActiveRecord::Base    
  attr_enum :color, :COLORS, :red => 1, :black => 2
end
car = Car.new
car.color = :red / "red" / 1 / "1"
car.color
=> Car::COLORS.red
car.color.black?
=> false
Car.red.to_sql
=> "SELECT `cars`.* FROM `cars` WHERE `cars`.`color` = 1"
Car.last.red?
=> true