On Jun 11, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Matt Martini wrote: > Guys, > > Thanks for the feedback. > > Would these approaches still be the way to go if you had a large-ish set of > data, > say State names of Country Names? >
That would depend on whether you needed to have related data, like this country has these states or anything like that. At that point you might want to move this into YAML or similar. There's a Railscast about this IIRC. Walter > Matt > > > On Jun 11, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Paul wrote: > >> I do it in the model, too, and also validate that nothing else can get >> in that column in the database: >> >> GENDERS = %w(Male Female) >> validates_inclusion_of :gender, :in => GENDERS >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Miguel Morales <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Don't know what the best practice is, but the way I do it is in the model >>> >>> class User < ActiveRecord::Base >>> UserGenders = {:male => 1, :female => 2} >>> end >>> >>> Then from code I just do if user.gender_id == User::UserGenders[:male] >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Matt Martini <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ~ Jeremiah:9:23-24 >>> Android 2D MMORPG: >>> http://solrpg.com/, http://www.youtube.com/user/revoltingx >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
