Retrieving Global Arrays

I inherited an app that created STATES & COUNTRIES as global hashes in
config/environment.rb

STATES = {}
STATES[:AL] = ‘Alabama’
STATES[:AK] = ‘Alaska’
STATES[:AZ] = ‘Arizona’

I’m able to render the name correctly like this…
<%= STATES[:AK] %>

But what is the syntax to call that dynamically? This does not
work…
<%= STATES[location.state] %>

Thanks, I’m stumped on this noob issue.

<%= STATES[location.state.to_sym] %> ?

Maurício Linhares
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