You are right, creating a database table for something like this does
feel like overkill. Personally, I often use constants if it's a very
small amount of data.
class Image
VALID_IMAGE_TYPES = ['png', 'gif', 'jpg']
end
or
IMAGE_TYPES = {:1 => 'Photo', :2 => 'Document', :3 => 'Print'}
On May 18, 6:28 pm, Scott Holland <[email protected]> wrote:
> wow, I didn't expect such a response!
>
> Maybe I should be storing this data in the db like I am at the moment,
> it just seem a bit overkill to have a table with:
>
> Image_type
> 1 => Photo
> 2 => Document
> 3 => Print
>
> There *must* be some way I can define these values in the application
> and still have all the associations work?
>
> Thanks
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