Rails - Jul 2010 - Showing a string to user and saving an integer in the DB

Hi,

I would like to know the best practice for following situation:

* For saving DB space, instead of saving a list of string values
("Implemented", "Non Implemented", "Partially
Implemented"), I want to
save an integer value (1, ,2, 3)

* My doubt is how to manage this situation in terms of:
> * Show list of values (strings)in a combo
> * Assign selected value to the integer field in the DB
> * Validate value
* ActiveRecord has any kind of functionality for this?
* Do I use helpers for translating? If this is the solution... how do I
do this?

Thx in advance
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Hi,

maybe this helps:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html#making-select-boxes-with-ease

Regards
Marc

On 26 Jul., 13:07, Alfredo Bonilla
<li...-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know the best practice for following situation:
>
> * For saving DB space, instead of saving a list of string values
> ("Implemented", "Non Implemented", "Partially
Implemented"), I want to
> save an integer value (1, ,2, 3)
>
> * My doubt is how to manage this situation in terms of:
>
> > * Show list of values (strings)in a combo
> > * Assign selected value to the integer field in the DB
> > * Validate value
>
> * ActiveRecord has any kind of functionality for this?
> * Do I use helpers for translating? If this is the solution... how do I
> do this?
>
> Thx in advance
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> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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bungart1978 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> maybe this helps: 
>
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html#making-select-boxes-with-ease
> 
> Regards
> Marc
Thank you very much. It is was I was searching for. I use select_tag for 
entering the info (combos) and later a helper translation for showing 
the stored value.
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