Make it possible to have lowercase enums in Ruby (original) (raw)

I have an enum that is something like this

enum status {
   active = 0;
   paused = 1;
}

My issue is when compiling it to a .rb I get a typeError due to this line
https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/f53f911793c3024976f80211e0c976f5cc51f88d/ruby/ext/google/protobuf_c/message.c#L546
I get it is a standart to use uppercase for Ruby constants, but it is not used only on Ruby and changing all my constants is not a real option for me as my project is already big.
Is there a way to bypass that error.
Thanks in advance