Rails - Mar 2006 - Array of strings for select input - how to display it later?

Hi!

I''ve prepared simple array in my model
(i.e. TYPE = [["very_long_string", "vls"]...])
which i use for select input element in form.

If i choose "very_long_string", "vls" is saved to database.
How to later read the whole string, not the shorter form? If i make in a 
view:
<%= @object.column %> i get "vls".

BTW. Will (or does) rails support mysql ENUM data type? When i created a 
table with this type, "rake db_schema_dump" didn''t work.

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