Best way to store Enum value in ActiveRecord and convert to string for display

Question

I am trying to figure out what is the best way to store an enum value in activerecord but convert it to a \'title\' for display in an app.

I.E.

Review Enum:

Answer 1

there are a lot of posts about this issue, i guess that this points to most of them: http://thinkinginrails.com/2010/04/using-enums-for-constants/

i think that this is an over engineered thing, that you don't need in a dynamically typed language like ruby.

just use strings!

you could then use that like:

class Review < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_inclusion_of :status, :in => ["UNREVIEWED", "REVIEWED", "FLAGGED"]
  def status
    read_attribute(:status)
  end
  def status= (value)
    write_attribute(:status, value)
  end
end