Hello, What is the best way to to do enumerations of values that you want to use to provide values for a field. There are many cases where you want the user to choose from a list of values, but you really don't need a whole model to support. Yet, it should be flexible enough to able to be changed.
A simple example would be a gender field in a person record. There needs to be somewhere to store the 'male' and 'female' values to be used in a select field, but we don't want to hard code these values because later we might add 'unknown' as an option, or change to 'boy' and 'girl'. With only two values it seems pointless to have a whole model dedicated to this, yet it still needs to be somewhat dynamic as the values could change. What is the best practice for this type of data? Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
