Rails - Jul 2006 - formatting output with lookup values

Is there an easy way to apply lookup values to output without using a 
lookup table?


For example, I have a users table with a user id. When I display a list 
of users, I''d like to have "1" mapped to "John",
"2" outputs as
"Beavis", etc.

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