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Ruby on Rails: Where to define global constants?
I am interested in doing this the "Rails Way" on a new application. I would also like to refer to constants in some sort of context to make the code more readable. I have an application where a user can request access to another users's data set. This AccessRequest can have one of the following statuses:
Review Denied Approved
I can see these values being used in reporting features in the future, so I want to make them constants in order to avoid any spelling or capitalization issues. I thought I would just put these in a constants.rb file in the config/initializers directory.
I would like to refer to these as AccessRequest::REVIEW. Since I already have a model called AccessRequest, does it make sense to put them there? Or wrap them in a class in a constants.rb file in the config/initializers directory? Which way is the Rails Way?