Re: Ruby on Rails Review

Andrus Adamchik wrote:
> Hi Pierce,
>
>> There is one thing that AR does better then EOF: You can easily map a 
>> class to a column or set of columns. So if you have a value that can 
>> only be 1-5, you can write a class that both is stored as 1-3, and 
>> returns the name: High,Medium,Low.
>

There is actually a fairly simple way to do that.  Look for "How To Use 
A Type Safe Enum As A Custom Value In EOF" on the Apple mailing lists.

I admit the first time you do it it seems a bit strange but after that 
it's fairly obvious how to get as many as you like :-)

-arturo