Best place to store model specific constants in rails 3.1?

Question

I have a field type in a model called user which is an int in the db. The value of the int speficies the type of store it is. Example:

Answer 1

One way you be to write an file in initializers folder or lib folder

say app_contants.rb and in this file you can write

MOM=1

DAD=2

1. Incase you write a initializer you can do

user.type == mom

2.If you create an lib file make it a module

 module app_constants
    mom = 1
    dad = 2
  end 

and simply include this module wherever you need