auto_increment

auto_increment provides automatic incrementation for a integer or string fields in Rails.

Installation

You can use auto_increment as a gem from Rails 4.2 to Rails 6.1.

To use the gem version, put the following gem requirement in your Gemfile:

gem "auto_increment"

Usage

To work with a auto increment column you used to do something like this in your model:

before_create :set_code
def set_code
  max_code = Operation.maximum(:code)
  self.code = max_code.to_i + 1
end

Looks fine, but not when you need to do it over and over again. In fact auto_increment does it under the cover.

All you need to do is this:

auto_increment :code

And your code field will be incremented

Customizing

So you have a different column or need a scope. auto_increment provides options. You can use it like this:

auto_increment :letter, scope: [:account_id, :job_id], model_scope: :in_account, initial: 'C', force: true, lock: false, before: :create

First argument is the column that will be incremented. Can be integer or string.

• scope: you can define columns that will be scoped and you can use as many as you want (default: nil)
• model_scope: you can define model scopes that will be executed and you can use as many as you want (default: nil)
• initial: initial value of column (default: 1)
• force: you can set a value before create and auto_increment will not change that, but if you do want this, set force to true (default: false)
• lock: you can set a lock on the max query. (default: false)
• before: you can choose a different callback to be used (:create, :save, :validation) (default: create)

Compatibility

Tested with Rails 6.1, 6 in Ruby 2.7.7. Tested with Rails 7.1, 7, 6.1, 6 in Ruby 3.2.2.

For older versions, use version 1.5.2.

License

MIT License